Deepak Sulakhe wrote:
> We have installed, net-snmp on Linux platform. We have an application which 
> provides Graphical User Interface(GUI) to configure snmpd.conf file. Once 
> user performs configuration, this GUI based application sends command "pkill 
> -SIGHUP  -U root snmpd" so that snmpd service re-initialises itself with new 
> values specified in snmpd.conf file.
> The problem start here, GUI based application is owned by user who is not 
> root hence this application would not be able to execute above mentioned 
> command. Even if it executes "pkill -SIGHUP  -U <user_name> snmpd" command, 
> snmpd service does not re-initialises itself because the owner of snmpd 
> service is "root". 
>   Is there any way by which GUI based application (whose owner is not root) 
> can re-initialise snmpd service ?

"sudo" can solve problems like these.


+Thomas

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