Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64390
snmpd bombs out on startup with no error message
Last modified: 2015-03-04 20:10:36 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.19-pre7 ppc) Description of problem: After installing a config file within /etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf, and starting the daemon with /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd, a check to see whether the daemon was running showed that it was not. An strace of snmpd showed that it was creating a log file /var/log/snmpd.log, then forking - but the forked process dies without saying anything. If config file errors existed, they were logged to /var/log/messages before snmpd dies. If an attempt is made to shut down snmpd with /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd stop, it reports "failed". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure snmpd.conf 2. Start /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd start 3. ps -auxwww | grep snmpd shows no deamon running Additional info:
You are probably using the original 7.2 version of ucd-snmp and activated the disk option in the config file. There have been numerous bug reports about this already in bugzilla, and the latest version of RH 7.3, ucd-snmp-4.2.4-3 fixes this problem. So if you could please give this version a try and see if it fixes your problem i'd greately appreciate it. Thanks, Read ya, Phil
No comment in more than 2 months, i assume the released errata version fixes your problem, so closing this bug as ERRATA. Read ya, Phil