RE: Running master agent and subagent not as root

> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Joan Landry
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:12 PM

> Can anyone tell me how to run the master agent and the subagent not as
> root?
> 
> I tried adding the following to snmpd.conf
> master agentx
> agentXSocket /tmp/agentx/master
> agentXperms 0660 0550 nobody snmp
> 
> And I added this to the subagent:
>     netsnmp_ds_set_string(NETSNMP_DS_APPLICATION_ID,
> NETSNMP_DS_AGENT_X_SOCKET,
>                       "/tmp/agentx/master");
> 
> But get this error when I run the master agent:
> agentx/master: initializing...
> Error: Couldn't open a master agentx socket to listen on
> (/tmp/agentx/master): 

	I haven't tried this myself, but my first thought would be to check if the /tmp/agentx directory exists..?


	HTH,

Mike

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