Re: configuring net-snmp from source

"zaman L" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/1/07, Joao Miguel Ferreira <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 13:46 +0530, zaman L wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >    I am trying to install net-snmp from the source code . The
> > installation is successful and
> >    it is installed in the default  location.
> >
> >    Now to configure I have the sample configuration file EXAMPLE.conf
> > to /usr/local/share/snmp
> >    and rename it to snmpd.conf . I also provided a community string
> > using rocommunity  in
> >    snmpd.conf file.
> >
> >   I am confused regarding how to start the agent (snmpd)  service .
> >   There is agent directory under the net-snmp directory which contains
> > an executable file named snmpd.
> >   I executed this file in the hope that this is the snmpd daemon. No
> > message was flashed.
> >   After that I executed the snmpget command  to check whether the
> > agent is working or not.
> >   But it give no response .
> >   So , I want to know how to start the snmpd  agent.
>
> 1) go to that directory an execute the agent like this:
>
> # ./snmpd -f -Lo
>
> -f: the agent does not fork() away from the tty
> -Lo: the agent logs its activity to stdout
>
> check to see if it prints any messages related to the config files....


            I tried that and it gives the following message


Error opening specified endpoint " "
Server Exiting with code 1




2) do a # ls -la /etc/snmp/ to see if the snmpd.conf is there


     the snmpd.conf file is present in /usr/local/share/snmp/

With thanks and Regards

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