Failed to connect to the agentx master agent (/var/agentx/master)

Hi, 

I am using net-snmp v5.2.2 on a SLES 9 SP2 system.  When I boot my
server I get the following message in the snmpd.log. 

snmpd:  create_trap_session: Unknown host (udp:host.name.server.com:162)

/opt/novell/snmp/snmpd.conf: Line 36: Error: cannot create trapsink:
host.name.server.com 
Turning on AgentX master support 
NET-SNMP version 5.2.2 

In my /var/log/boot.msg file snmpd load with no errors, BUT when the
subagent load I get the following error. 

Starting NDS SNMP Subagent ... 
Please Wait... 
Warning: Failed to connect to the agentx master agent
(/var/agentx/master): Unknown host (/var/agentx/master) 
(No such file or directory) 
Warning: Failed to connect to the agentx master agent
(/var/agentx/master): Unknown host (/var/agentx/master) 
(No such file or directory) 
Done 

I do have a /var/agentx/master file. 

Some additional notes.  If I stop the subagent and stop snmpd and then
restart them without restarting the system they all load fine with no
errors.  I have another server using the same configuration and I do not
get the above errors when booting.  All loads fine on the second system.
 One visual difference I have seen is the /var/agentx/master file on the
working system looks like this. 

[Mon Jan 09 16:00:24]<~> # ll /var/agentx 
total 0 
srwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Jan  6 15:37 master= 

[Mon Jan 09 16:00:31]<~> # 

On the failing system it looks like this. 

Server B:/var/log #  ll /var/agentx 
total 1 
drwx------   2 root root  72 Jan  9 15:34 . 
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root 624 Jan  6 11:23 .. 
srwxr-xr-x   1 root root   0 Jan  9 15:34 master 

Notice the = (equals sign)?  Not sure if that adds any clues or not. 
Again the one with the = sign works fine during boot. 

Any thoughts? 

Thanks, 
Rich