On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 at 06:15, Rob Janssen <deb...@pe1chl.nl> wrote:
> After the upgrade, the snmptrapd service no longer starts.
> The error message is: couldn't open udp:162 -- errno 13 ("Permission
> denied")
>
Could you tell me how you start snmptrapd?
There are two ways:
The default systemd way. The socket is created with a snmptrap.socket and
then passed onto the snmpdtrap server. I have tested this just now and it
works fine with 5.9.4
The init way. In this case snmptrapd starts as root and changes to
Debian-snmp after binding to the sockets.
It appears that this is caused by the service being started as user
> Debian-snmp
>
and thus not being able to open privileged ports.
>
As you can see, it doesn't need to normally.
> To cover possible upgrade issues I removed and purged the snmptrapd package
> and re-installed it, but the new install suffered the same issue.
>
What, specifically, are you doing to see this message? Running what you see
in the service file on the command line won't work and will give this
result.
- Craig
