You're right, Robert. The agent is running as an unprivileged user. The
snmpd.conf file was initially only R/W by the root user, and no other
users or groups had any privileges.
To start the agent, I run the following init script from the command line:
sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd start
Even
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:53:47 + Todd A. wrote:
NTA You're right, Robert. The agent is running as an unprivileged user. The
NTA snmpd.conf file was initially only R/W by the root user, and no other
NTA users or groups had any privileges.
NTA
NTA To start the agent, I run the following init
Niels--
Hi. These are the OS provided versions. I am running Linux Ubuntu 10.4
and 11.4. These were installed via apt-get from the command line.
I just checked a Windows agent that I built from source. It is running
version 5.6, and this problem does not exist on that agent. Writing a '1'
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On 29 November
I ran the agent by hand with the following:
snmpd -f -Le
Then, I issued the command to SET the UCD-SNMP-MIB::versionUpdateConfig.0
object to '1'. The console produced the following printout.
NET-SNMP version 5.4.2.1
Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:56555-[127.0.0.1]
Warning:
Dave--
Problem solved! My snmpd.conf file was only readable to the USER (600).
I changed the permissions to make it readable to the GROUP and OTHERS
(644), and the problem is now resolved.
I guess when the reloading of the config file is happening, it was not
doing it as the USER (which in my
Hi. I am trying to get snmpd to reload its config file while running in order
to avoid having to restart the daemon. I believe that setting a '1' to the
UCD-SNMP-MIB::versionUpdateConfig.0 variable is supposed to do this. I can
successfully set this variable to a '1' (and I get a successful
On 29 November 2011 17:18, Newton, Todd A. tnew...@swri.org wrote:
Hi. I am trying to get snmpd to reload its config file while running in
order to avoid having to restart the daemon. I believe that setting a '1'
to the UCD-SNMP-MIB::versionUpdateConfig.0 variable is supposed to do this.
I
Den 29-11-2011 18:18, Newton, Todd A. skrev:
I have had the same result on multiple linux machines, some running
v5.4.2.1 and others v5.4.3.
Is this OS provided packages, or are these versions vanilla releases
from the project?
/Niels
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