On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Anders wrote: > >>> /MF (I do think Debian should stop violating RFC2741) > >> Does it? Please point me to the respective areas. > > > > I think Magnus refers to the AgentX socket path. From RFC2741:
I do. > > 8.2.1. Well-known Values > > > > The master agent creates a well-known UNIX-domain socket endpoint > > called "/var/agentx/master". (It may create other, implementation- > > specific endpoints.) > > > > This endpoint name uses the character set encoding native to the > > managed node, and represents a UNIX-domain stream (SOCK_STREAM) > > socket. > > > > Debian has changed this path to /var/run/agentx (09_agentxpath.patch) > > which is considered a violation of RFC2741. I propose to add a symlink > > /var/agentx/master->../run/agentx at least. > > It looks like someone had to choose between breaking the > /var/agentx/master convention and the FHS (no new subdirectories under > /var without FHS consultation). Besides, "It may create other, > implementation-specific endpoints" was interpreted as a possible > alternative implementation. I would claim that this is bad reading of standardeese but I might be wrong. My reading would be that if any set of unix end points are opened then /var/agentx/master should be part of it. > This way, both "standards" could be > satisfied. As long as all respective programs (integrated in Debian or > configurable to use the socket location) can use the /var/agentx/master, > this looks like an acceptable approach (as practiced similarly > throughout Debian). The change was introduced by debian bug #120015. In that bug report it is stated that you can't change where the library looks for the agentx socket. This is corrected since then. > If this imposes any kind of serious problem, please describe, or even > better: File a bug against the net-snmp package in Debian. Then we can > sort it out. It is mostly a problem since any reasonable agentx implemntation would suppose that the well known path is a good place to look for the master socket. Obviously that means every implementation would need to be reconfigured to use the debian specific location. /MF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
