Hi,

Thomas Anders wrote:
>>> /MF (I do think Debian should stop violating RFC2741)
>> Does it? Please point me to the respective areas.
> 
> I think Magnus refers to the AgentX socket path. From RFC2741:
> 
> 8.2.1. Well-known Values
> 
>    The master agent creates a well-known UNIX-domain socket endpoint
>    called "/var/agentx/master".  (It may create other, implementation-
>    specific endpoints.)
> 
>    This endpoint name uses the character set encoding native to the
>    managed node, and represents a UNIX-domain stream (SOCK_STREAM)
>    socket.
> 
> Debian has changed this path to /var/run/agentx (09_agentxpath.patch)
> which is considered a violation of RFC2741. I propose to add a symlink
> /var/agentx/master->../run/agentx at least.

It looks like someone had to choose between breaking the
/var/agentx/master convention and the FHS (no new subdirectories under
/var without FHS consultation). Besides, "It may create other,
implementation-specific endpoints" was interpreted as a possible
alternative implementation. This way, both "standards" could be
satisfied. As long as all respective programs (integrated in Debian or
configurable to use the socket location) can use the /var/agentx/master,
this looks like an acceptable approach (as practiced similarly
throughout Debian).

If this imposes any kind of serious problem, please describe, or even
better: File a bug against the net-snmp package in Debian. Then we can
sort it out.

Thanks!

bye,
  Roland

BTW: Thomas: Both your ewt.de and blue-cable.de addresses are bouncing.
Please consider changes to your "somewhat strict anti-spam measures". ;)

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