Re: --without-root-access clarification

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24/11/06, Juraj Sucik <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Jolet wrote:
> > There are some bits of information that the daemon needs root
> > access to gather.  Those bits will be missing or wrong.
> Which are those bits?

It depends on the operating system as to what information might
be missing.  But typically, this would be stuff that's retrieved from
the underlying operating system - such as network statistics.

Try running the agent as root, and as a normal user - walk the
full OID tree, and compare the results.

Dave

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