SNMP daemon still running after snmpd -h command

Josef Ridky <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Oct 2018 04:49:09 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi folks,

I have discovered following issue.

When I run in terminal:
# snmpd -h

I get proper usage information, but snmpd process still exists.
I prepared simple patch with solution based on code from 5.7 version of net-snmp (in attachment).

Regards

Josef Ridky
Associate Software Engineer
Core Services Team
Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.

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0001-Exit-snmpd-after-calling-snmpd-h.patch (text/x-patch, 553 B)

From ee487531b8e6efaff661cbc197c4b7cadac6ea03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Ridky <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:22:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Exit snmpd after calling snmpd -h

---
 agent/snmpd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/agent/snmpd.c b/agent/snmpd.c
index a0f2d6552..e2169a793 100644
--- a/agent/snmpd.c
+++ b/agent/snmpd.c
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ usage(char *prog)
            "  -S d|i|0-7\t\tuse -Ls <facility> instead\n"
            "\n"
            );
+           exit(1);
 }
 
 static void
-- 
2.14.4