Re: Can't connect to master agent
Josef Moellers <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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| Organization | Changes ever so often! |
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Kelby Rogers wrote: > > Dave Shield wrote: > >>On 21/08/06, Kelby Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>>When I run the example-demon from the tutorial I get the following >>>message "Warning: Failed to connect to the agentx master agent >>>(/var/agentx/master): Unknown host (/var/agentx/master) (Connection >>>refused)" >>> >>>The /var/agentx/master file exists, but it is 0 bytes. >>> >>> >> >>A zero-length file is to be expected - it's a socket, not a regular file. >>What is the ownership (and permissions) on this file? >> >> > The owner and group are both 'root'. The permissions are -rwxr-xr-x This should be srwxr-xr-x Who cretaed this file? It should be created implicitly by the master agent if it sees the "agentx master" directive (or the appropriate command-line switch). >>What user are you running the example-demon as? >> >> > I'm running the example-demon as 'root'. (via the sudo command) > >>What happens when you close down the master agent - does the >>/var/agentx/master socket disappear? >> >> > No, /var/agentx/master socket is still there when I close the master agent. Dunno if it must be removed explicitly, but I'm currently investigating a crashing master and, while no snmpd is running after a crash, the socket is still there. -- Josef Möllers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC) If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize -- T. Pratchett ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users