Bug 199165

Summary: snmptrap does not search for mibs in default mib directory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Brian Reichert <brian.reichert>
Component: net-snmpAssignee: Jan Safranek <jsafrane>
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Version: 4.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0738 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Brian Reichert 2006-07-17 17:25:37 UTC
Description of problem:

  We publish our own MIB, in a separate directory.  According to snmpcmd(1), 
  I should be able to use this command to use our MIB, in addition to the
  default ones:

    env - snmptrap -M +/our/mib/dir ...

  However, the errors I get make it clear the default MIBs are not being read:

    Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB): At line 0 in (none)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-11.EL4.6.i386.rpm


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. (see below)
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

    env - snmptrap -M +/our/mib/dir ...

  However, the errors I get make it clear the default MIBs are not being read:

    Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    Cannot find module (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
    ...

Expected results:

  (no errors.)


Additional info:

   The manpage says, in part:

    -M DIRLIST
              Specifies a colon separated list of directories to  search  for
              MIBs.  This overrides the environment variable MIBDIRS.

              ...

              If  DIRLIST  has  a leading â+â, then the given directories are
              added to the list of MIB directories.

              ...

              If no value is specified for the environment variable  MIBDIRS,
              then  the  command  will  still search a default mib directory   
                                     
              ....

              The  default  directory  is /usr/share/snmp/mibs.

  Using strace shows that the default directory is never looked at.

  Augmenting my invokation thusly gives me the result I want:

    env - snmptrap -M /usr/share/snmp/mibs:/our/mib/dir ...

Comment 1 Jan Safranek 2007-06-14 11:01:20 UTC
Still reproducible with RHEL 4.5, RHEL 5.0 and Fedora Core 6. I'll contact
upstream...

Comment 2 Jan Safranek 2007-06-14 11:02:46 UTC
Created attachment 156979 [details]
patch resolving this issue

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-06-14 11:04:44 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-15 16:00:11 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0738.html