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> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 07:37 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > I thought ..... that on shutdown the agent
> > tells the subagent to save its persistent values.
>
> Hmmm... that's an idea, I suppose.
> In general, the administration side of the AgentX protocol
> is very much driven by the subagent - the master agent just
> listens for incoming registrations.
>
> But the master agent *does* explicitly close any AgentX
> connections when it shuts down. I suppose that could
> potentially trigger saving the configuration.
I think it does. It's been a while since I worked on that code but I
don't think _I'm_ doing anything to trigger that save. Maybe I am...
> ...
> > Well, I was asking if the subagent code set up a signal handler for
> > SIGHUP. I guess I see now that that's unlikely.
>
> Not necessarily.
> If you're using the main Net-SNMP agent in a subagent role,
> then that will inherit the same behaviour as the master agent,
> so *would* include the usual SIGHUP handling.
> I haven't looked at the stripped-down subagent framework,
> to see whether that does or not. But it wouldn't be too
> difficult to add if necessary.
>
> And if the subagent is mostly code you've written yourself, then
> it'd depend on whether you coded SIGHUP handling or not :-)
:-) Yes, my subagent is mostly my code, a 3-thread program with the
subagent in one thread.
> > > Suck it and see.
> >
> > Huh?
>
> Sorry - must be a British expression.
> ...
I guessed that might be the case from your .uk address.
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