RE: running snmpd

> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Jelena Savic

>> I have a script which starts up snmpd and then another 
>> process which talks to snmpd
>> I have traced the snmpd, and the parent process  forks and 
>> exits before the socket is ready..
>> 
>> Is there a way that i can notify my process when snmpd is 
>> ready without arbitrarily sleeping for some time before 
>> starting up the second process?

>$ snmpgetnext [valid creds] -t 10 -r 60 .1.3
>
>	...will wait up to ten minutes for a valid response, retrying every ten seconds.  Check the return code - 0 
>menas the agent is up, anything else means abort.
>
>
>	HTH,
>
>Mike



How do i check the return code of snmpgetnext?

Thanks


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