RE: How do I detect kill -9 snmpd?

"Mike Ayers" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <83E753BE7B6A324ABB336245BAF1DAAC094531F0@mailserver.metatv-ds.metatv.com>
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Vahid K
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:35 PM

> I'm using Redhat and Suse Enterprise versions of Linux.  I 
> have a generic question about snmpd.  I have a subagnet which 
> at the moment only sends snmp traps using void send_v2trap(). 
>  If someone does "kill -9 (Processid for snmpd)" is there any 
> way to detect it?

	Basically, no.  Signal 9 is uninterceptable.  That's it's point and purpose.  It should nevert be used for routine shutdown, only as a last resort.  Agents killed with this signal will not send traps to indicate they are going down, which is why a good NMS never relies solely on traps.


	HTH,

Mike

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