Bug 70721

Summary:	snmptrapd and snmpd initscripts have wrong error handling
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Peter van Egdom <p.van.egdom>
Component:	net-snmp	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Peter van Egdom 2002-08-04 15:07:26 UTC

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Description of problem:
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmpd start
Starting snmpd:                                            [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/snmpd': Toegang geweigerd
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmptrapd start
Starting snmptrapd:                                        [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/snmptrapd': Toegang geweigerd
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmpd stop
Stopping snmpd:                                            [FAILED]
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmptrapd stop
Stopping snmptrapd:                                        [FAILED]


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "snmpd stop"     \ as normal user
2. "snmptrapd stop" /
3.
	

Actual Results:
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmpd start
Starting snmpd:                                            [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/snmpd': Toegang geweigerd
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmptrapd start
Starting snmptrapd:                                        [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/snmptrapd': Toegang geweigerd
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmpd stop
Stopping snmpd:                                            [FAILED]
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmptrapd stop
Stopping snmptrapd:                                        [FAILED]


Expected Results:
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmpd start
Starting snmpd:                                            [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/snmpd': Toegang geweigerd
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmptrapd start
Starting snmptrapd:                                        [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/snmptrapd': Toegang geweigerd
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmpd stop
Stopping snmpd:                                            [FAILED]
[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./snmptrapd stop
Stopping snmptrapd:                                        [FAILED]


Additional info:

Source RPM: net-snmp-5.0.1-5.src.rpm

Comment 1 Peter van Egdom 2002-11-01 22:27:31 UTC

Still occurs in Red Hat Linux 8.0.

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2003-02-05 16:57:16 UTC

Will be fixed in next rawhide build.

Read ya, Phil