Re: clarrification on "agentaddress" in snmpd.conf

Dave Shield wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:28 +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote:
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>>Anyways, here's the dump of snmpd with the "-Dread_config" option.
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>>$ ./snmpd -Dread_config -c /usr/local/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
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>>read_config: reading premib configuration tokens
>>read_config: config path 
>>used:/usr/local/etc/snmp:/usr/local/share/snmp:/usr/local/lib/snmp:/root/.snmp:/var/net-snmp
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>And there's your problem.
>/usr/local/etc/snmp is on the default search path, so the agent is
>*already* reading the file /usr/local/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
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>The option '-c /usr/local/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf' tells the agent to
>explicitly read this file a second time - exactly as I suggested.
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>That's what's causing the agent to try and open the same port twice
>(and hence failing).   You only need '-c' if you want to add *extra*
>config files - not those in the standard locations.
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>Dave
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Wooh! Great! Thanks. This maybe be worth adding to the man pages.

Isn't it a BUG, can't snmpd just skip or disregard the same values for
"agentaddress" it found (assuming thats the cause). We'll, just a though
for the developers. I myself might try looking at the codes.