RE: How do I detect kill -9 snmpd?

Thanks for the response Mike.  Just for clarification...
Am I to understand that there is no way to detect snmpd is dead from inside the snmp subaganet?  In that case I could call send_v2trap() and wouldn't know snmpd is gone. correct?

Thanks

> Subject: RE: How do I detect kill -9 snmpd?
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:30:17 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
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> 
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Vahid K
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:35 PM
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> > 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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