From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012 Description of problem: snmpd fails to start if you use the disk config option in /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf to monitor disk usage. Specifically, with a line like: disk / 10% (or disk / 100000 ) in the config file, ucd-snmp fails to start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./etc/init.d/snmpd 2.ps auxw | grep snmpd 3. Actual Results: nothing. strace shows snmpd dying after reading the config file. Selectively disabling options in the config file led me to find that it was the disk option that was causing it to fail. Expected Results: snmpd should start Additional info: I have verified this on two different machines that I upgraded to Red Hat 7.2. Both are using ext3. ucd-snmp-4.2.1-8 (from RawHide) continues to work on another machine I have that is still running Red Hat 7.1 but is also running ext3 (w/ kernel 2.4.7-6).
I independently came to the same conclusion and cam here to report it. If you put any sort of "disk" directive in snmpd.conf, snmpd will fail to start.
The 4.2.2 rpms at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12694 solve the problem.
Well, i have also ran into this bug, and too bad it's on my production servers. will try the http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12694 version
Recompiling the package from source RPM helped me. I was about to hunt down the problem and it silently disappeared. Probably it was result of applying available updates (namely glibc). Name : ucd-snmp Version : 4.2.1 Release : 7 Build Date: Thu 08 Nov 2001 11:23:22 AM CET Install date: Thu 08 Nov 2001 11:23:49 AM CET Build Host: trinity.clnet.cz Source RPM: ucd-snmp-4.2.1-7.src.rpm Size : 2764707
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