Re: Running master agent and subagent not as root

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/7/2 Joan Landry <[email protected]>:
> 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?

What command did you use to start the agent?

By default, the agent will attempt to listen on UDP port 161,
which it can't do if it's running as a non-root user.

If you specify a different (high-numbered) port when
you start the agent, then it should be OK.

Dave

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