On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:52:48 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CRC> > The agentgroup has been processed, but that only 'remembers' the 
CRC> > value. It isn't used until later, and unfortunately 'later' is 
CRC> > after it has done the initial persistent store save, which is 
CRC> > why you see the current behavior.  You could try patching snmpd.c
CRC> > to move the groupid change right before the snmp_store(), and see
CRC> > if that helps.
CRC> 
CRC> Synchronicity!  I'd just found the same thing.  It's patch  1371078 on
CRC> SourceForge.

Can anyone think of any objections to changing the group earlier?

- It's new behaviour
- It will change the ownership of files created by the agent (thus possibly
  reducing the security of the agent; eg exposing info, non-root users being
  able to change config)


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