RE: Adding "master agentx" line to snmpd.conf then running snmpd, then do ps -ef, snmpd not there

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<Does the directory /var/agentx exist?
Who is it owned by, and what are the permissions?
OK - that's the most important thing to fix.
Who are you starting the agent as?  Root, or an unprivileged user? >

I'm starting the agent as 'root'. Everything is owned by 'root' because
I configured/built/installed as 'root' (I had to). /var/agentx does not
exist.
Randy  

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Dave Shield
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:31 AM
To: Smith, Randy
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Adding "master agentx" line to snmpd.conf then running
snmpd, then do ps -ef, snmpd not there

On 30/10/2007, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> # snmpd -f -Le
> Turning on AgentX master support.
> Error: Couldn't open a master agentx socket to listen on ():

OK - that's the most important thing to fix.

Does the directory /var/agentx exist?
Who is it owned by, and what are the permissions?

Who are you starting the agent as?  Root, or an unprivileged user?


> Should I create an agentx.conf file perhaps?

No - that shouldn't be necessary.

Dave


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