RE: Running master agent and subagent not as root

Thanks for the recommendations on what to try.
I removed the agentXperms and I did a chmod 755 on /tmp/agentx

Which helped get past the original error.
However, I get a new error now when I try to run the master agent:
agentx/master: initializing...
agentx/master: initializing...   DONE
Error opening specified endpoint ""
Server Exiting with code 1 

Any ideas on what would cause this?
Thanks for the help

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Dave Shield
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:14 AM
To: Joan Landry
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Running master agent and subagent not as root

>> 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

>> 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..?


And if it does, check the permissions.

Another thing to try - what happens if you omit the "agentXperms" line?
If the agent is running as a user other than 'nobody', then it's
possible that it won't be able to create and/or use the socket, since
you are specifying an explicit user/group.
  It might work better with the default user/group.

Dave

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