Re: what reason causes echo some date after command line snmpd &

Fulko Hew <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Dave Shield <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2010/4/7 Fulko Hew <[email protected]>:
> >> I'm surprised at this output - I'd expect it to display "51"
> >> instead of "39"
> >
> > I'm not.  Although I haven't looked at net-snmpd's daemonizing code,
> > any application thats going to operate as a  (well behaved) daemon
> > is supposed to perform (at least) 2 fork() calls to 'detatch itself from
> > the controlling terminal', etc.
>
> But the "-f" flag disables the background fork, and runs the agent
> in the foreground.   So
>
>    snmpd -f &
>

My apologizes to all, I didn't notice the '-f' flag.
Dave is right... we don't know why the PID is different.

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