Re: how to start snmpd in Ubuntu

I guess the port 161 is in use .. try with some other port

check using
# netstat -an | grep 161
before running snmpd on udp161 ..


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Abraham Varricatt <
[email protected]<abraham.varricatt%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> I think I'm almost there now. Running your suggestion gave me this,
>
> > snmpd -f -Lo -C -c snmpd.conf
> Error opening specified endpoint ""
> Server Exiting with code 1
>
> I felt that the endpoint needed to get mentioned so,
>
> > snmpd -f -Lo udp:161 -C -c snmpd.conf
> Error opening specified endpoint "udp:161"
> Server Exiting with code 1
>
> I read online about using "sockstat" to see if the port was in-use,
> but it turns out nothing's running there. A little later I discovered
> that ports below 1024 are locked out of regular users. So I tried
> running the above command with sudo (there is no root user in ubuntu)
> and I get this,
>
> > sudo snmpd -f -Lo udp:161 -C -c snmpd.conf
> snmpd: error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmpagent.so.20:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> It's similar to my first problem (different email) but I can't figure
> out how to get sudo to recognize my "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" variable that I
> mentioned in my ".bashrc" file.
>
> Hints/Help?
>
> Even more puzzled,
> Abraham Varricatt
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, rakesh zingade <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Try executing snmpd on foreground
> >
> > # snmpd -f -Lo -C -c <path for snmpd.conf>
> >
> > see if it generate any error message ..
> >
> > check for valid config stuff in snmpd.conf.. snmpconf -g basic_setup may
> > help to configure snmpd.conf
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Abraham Varricatt
> > <[email protected]<abraham.varricatt%[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've done a compile & install of net-snmp 5.5 according to the
> >> instructions in INSTALL. How do I start the snmpd agent on my system ?
> >> (Ubuntu 10.04 running in VirtualBox)
> >>
> >> This doesn't work,
> >>
> >> > snmpd -c .snmp/snmpd.conf
> >> > snmpget -v 2c -c private localhost SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0
> >> Timeout: No Response from localhost.
> >>
> >> In fact, I don't see snmpd anywhere when I try "ps -ae" either !
> >>
> >> Puzzled,
> >> Abraham Varricatt
> >>
> >>
> >>
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