On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:41:31AM +0100, Robin Kearney wrote:
> > 
> > Setting up inetd.conf entries is a one-time shot.  Using ssh is considerably
> > more overhead, especially if you call the monitors frequently, and have more
> > than a couple of them in inetd.conf.  The inetd method is very efficient in
> > comparison to repeated ssh calls.
> > 
> 
> This seems to be inetd`s method of stopping a inbound flood. Although in this 
> situation it was not the desired behaviour. I would recomend anybody using this
> metod for retrieving remote data watches for this.

I would recommend using DJB's daemontools for uses such as this. It is both
more robust and doesn't mess with your system's init process.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

> I`ve now moved to snmpdiskspace.monitor and the host resource mib which doesnt
> suffer from the inetd problems.

Better anyways. You can extend net-snmp with scripts as well, if you
need to go that route.
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