On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:25:24 +0530 Abraham wrote: AV> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Robert Story <[email protected]> wrote: AV> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:38:21 +0530 Abraham wrote: AV> > AV> I'm learning/studying the agent and run it with the "-f" option. Is AV> > AV> there any 'nice' way to turn it off (snmpd) ? At the moment, I kill AV> > AV> the process ID from another terminal. AV> > AV> > I use good ol Control-C. AV> > AV> AV> Ctrl + Z/C was among the first options I tried. The problem is that it AV> left the UDP port (143, I think) still 'locked'. As a result, if I AV> restart the snmpd agent, I won't be able to have it bind to that port AV> again.
Hmmm.. I was just looking at the source, and SIGQUIT isn't one of the signals we catch for a clean shutdown... So the agent isn't getting a chance to do its normal shutdown cleanup.. Might not be a big deal for some quick testing, but not recommended for a production environment... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
