Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23476
ucd-snmp does not log to syslog
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:30:33 EDT
snmpd does not use the syslog, but instead uses a log file of its own, /var/log/syslog. Whilst the endles growing of this file was dealt with int bug #21399, my original interest of bug #23403 was to have it log via syslog (which give far more flexibility, e.g. remote logging) Therefor I attach again a patch for the starting snmpd with some options, this time with an explanation of every single option used. -s means log to syslog (desried effect) -l /dev/null is here to make snmpd stop using a file which grows without end. (it would be better to add an option not to use file logging at all, but I didn#t want to play with the source ;-) -P /var/run/snmpd makes snmpd created a pid file. This assists the /etc/init.d functions in killing the right process and is IMHO the correct behaviour for a daemon. -a makes snmpd log addresses, too. Sorry to bug you again, but I felt misunderstood the first time.
--- snmpd.redhat Fri Jan 5 12:16:36 2001 +++ snmpd Fri Jan 5 12:17:06 2001 @@ -14,12 +14,14 @@ # source function library . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions +OPTIONS="-s -l /dev/null -P /var/run/snmpd -a" + RETVAL=0 case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting snmpd: " - daemon /usr/sbin/snmpd + daemon /usr/sbin/snmpd $OPTIONS RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/snmpd echo
Thanks for the clarification. Added in ucd-snmp-4.2-3.