Talk about defensive code! snmpd survived shutdown -r now
I call that sufficiently robust for our customers. -- Pete Wilson --- Pete Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Red Hat 7.3 and starting snmpd like this: > > /usr/sbin/snmpd -s -l /dev/null -P /var/run/snmpd -a > > It starts and runs correctly. When I do ps -ef, I see: > > root 7044 1 0 Oct27 ? 00:00:15 /usr/sbin/snmpd -s > -l > /dev/null -P /var/run/snmpd -a > > All good so far. > > Now I want to restart snmpd (because I've made some changes in > snmpd.conf, say). But when I issue kill -9 7044, snmpd stays firmly > in place. If I say: > > snmpd stop > or > snmp restart > > I see: > > Stopping snmpd [FAILED] > > and ps -ef yields the same result as before. And I can tell that > it's > the same copy of snmpd running because: > > 1. Same pid. > 2. Same options to snmpd, where I'd changed them in the file > ../rc.d/init.d/snmpd. > 3. It even has yesterday's date stamp. > > What am I doing wrong? What can I do to kill this daemon? Thanks! > > -- Pete Wilson > > > > > ===== > -- Pete Wilson > http://www.pwilson.net/ > ===== -- Pete Wilson http://www.pwilson.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This Newsletter Sponsored by: Macrovision For reliable Linux application installations, use the industry's leading setup authoring tool, InstallShield X. Learn more and evaluate today. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSI/go/ins0030000001msi/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
