[CentOS] snmpd log messages
Paul R. Ganci
ganci at nurdog.com
Tue May 22 00:55:16 UTC 2007
rs at centos.spam.futz.org wrote:
> The '-Lf /dev/null' was to disable
> the default log file, because snmpd used to always open it, even if other log
> types were specified. Newer releases don't open the default log file unless
> no other logging method is specified, so the '-Lf /dev/null' can (and should)
> be dropped...
>
My observation indicates that there is more to it than this. I also
never saw any snmpd messages in the syslog under CentOS 4.4 even though
snmpd was started with -Lsd switch? It appears that in CentOS 4.4 the
-Lsd was ignored. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that behavior was because
of the simultaneous use of -Lf /dev/null switch. With CentOS 4.5 snmpd
now does something with the -Lsd switch. In this sense it appears that
maybe a bug was actually fixed going from CentOS 4.4 to CentOS 4.5.
However, I am not convinced that -Lsd is a good default.
--
Paul (ganci at nurdog.com)
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