RE: Running master agent and subagent not as root

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Dave Shield
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:33 AM
To: Joan Landry
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Running master agent and subagent not as root

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?

./snmpd -f -Le 

>>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.

I do not know how to do this:
I tried:
./snmpd -f -Le -x 22222

But I get the same error.

Can you give me an example of how to specify a different port?
Also, I am not sure if part of the problem is that because I am not
starting it up as root - the program fails because it can not write out
the config file to:
 /var/net-snmp/snmp.conf (as it would not have permissions to do this).

My problem is that I need to run the subagent as non root, and I am
under the impression that in order to run the subagent as non root the
master agent has to also run as non root.
Thanks for the help.

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