Re: "something horrible happened" when running snmpdemoapp

Li Juen Hwang wrote:
> What's wrong with shutting down agent with "kill -9"? What does it
> indicate?
> I ask because currently my agent (a master agent, not a subagent) can 
> only
> be shut down by "kill -9". It is launched with "-f -L -M -D" as a 
> thread on
> RH by a main program which will then connect to the data source to 
> get data.
> I'd like to know the impact of using "kill -9" and the correct way of 
> terminating an agent.

Use plain "kill" (=="kill -TERM") instead. Any well-behaved application 
should be given the chance to properly shutdown itself. A net-snmp based 
agent in particular will write the persistent config on shutdown which 
it cannot do if terminated the hard way (SIGKILL).


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)


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