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> Behalf Of Jelena Savic

> I have a script which starts up snmpd and then another 
> process which talks to snmpd
> I have traced the snmpd, and the parent process  forks and 
> exits before the socket is ready..
> 
> Is there a way that i can notify my process when snmpd is 
> ready without arbitrarily sleeping for some time before 
> starting up the second process?

$ snmpgetnext [valid creds] -t 10 -r 60 .1.3

        ...will wait up to ten minutes for a valid response, retrying every ten 
seconds.  Check the return code - 0 menas the agent is up, anything else means 
abort.


        HTH,

Mike

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