--- Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Pete wrote:
> PW> Now I want to restart snmpd (because I've made some changes in
> PW> snmpd.conf, say). But when I issue kill -9 7044, snmpd stays
> firmly
> PW> in place.
> 
> And you are running kill as root, right?

Yes.

> The only thing I could think of would be if the agent were blocked
> in some
> kernel access routine, and the kernel was blocking signals.
> 
> Was it responding to normal requests?

No, it wasn't.

Thank you Robert. When I finally thought to power-cycle the machine,
then snmpd behaved just as we'd expect. As you say, I must have
somehow gotten the kernel into a funny mode. 

I apologize for posting the question when the answer might have
become apparent with just a little time. I thought perhaps snmpd
daemonized itself in some special, super-secure, signal-proof secret
way; thus my posting.

Thanks everyone for thinking about this question.

-- Pete Wilson



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