On 23 Mar 2002, Anton Winter wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 01:21, Christopher Booth wrote:
> > I did a nmap scan of myself tonight and noticed that I have something call smux
>open on port 199
> > 199/tcp open smux
> >
>
> port 199 is used by snmpd
<GRIPE>
Can anyone explain why doc writers assume the reader already knows
the answer to the question? I had no idea what snmpd was, so I did
<man snmpd>. I am absolutely none the wiser. <less /etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf>
didn't help either. Whatever it is, it's installed by default by RH 7.1
It has occurred to me that IT people need to do a basic HUMAN
communication course before being allowed to touch a computer.
</GRIPE>
[david@data david]$ man snmpd
SNMPD(1) SNMPD(1)
NAME
snmpd - daemon to respond to SNMP request packets.
SYNOPSIS
snmpd [-v] [-a] [-V] [-d] [-q] [-D] [-p
[(udp|tcp):]port[@address][,...]] [-x agentx-socket] [-f]
[-l logfile] [-L] [-c file] [-C] [-r] [-I [-]module_list]
DESCRIPTION
snmpd is a SNMP agent which binds to a port and awaits
requests from SNMP management software. Upon receiving a
request, it processes the request(s), collects the
requested information and/or performs the requested opera
tion(s) and returns the information to the sender.
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