Bug#781257: snmp: preinst kills all processes of user snmp

2015-10-09 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
tags 781257 +patch thanks It turns out that the original motivation why the killall was added is gone. These days the install scripts no more call deluser (only snmpd.postrm). So we can just remove the killall introduced by Ubuntu LP: #573391 to fix LP: #1245604 and Debian Bug #781257 FYI - I'm

Bug#781257: snmp: preinst kills all processes of user snmp

2015-10-08 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 03:39:52PM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > 5. And finally: why is this even done? I simply don't see the point of > doing this... The commit message in git doesn't describe the need for > this change, and I can't imagine any scenario for this: snmp contains a > bunch of

Bug#781257: snmp: preinst kills all processes of user snmp

2015-03-26 Thread Christian Seiler
Package: snmp Version: 5.7.2.1~dfsg-7 Severity: important Dear Maintainers, The preinst script of the 'snmp' (client tools) package contains the following code (if 'install' or 'upgrade' is passed): killall -u snmp 2/dev/null || true This was added here: