Thank you pointing me to SIGHUP. I just needed to take care of snmpd.conf
before issuing SIGHUP.
Without this, I was doing all kind of stupid things like forking then
execving etc.
Best regards,
Santosh
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:55 PM, <jrego...@rego.org> wrote:
> Using system() to call /etc/init.d/snmpd probably will never work.
>
> /etc/init.d/snmpd is a shell script that sets up and starts snmpd or finds
> the pid and kills it. When you cal system(), you are creating a child
> process that will be stopped when the parent process stops.
>
> If you want to try and have the process read its configuration files
> again, you should have it send itself a SIGHUP signal. That might be the
> only way to achieve your desired action.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: How to restart agent from itself?
> From: santosh <ysa...@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, June 05, 2013 6:15 am
> To: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi,
>
> I've a private mib implemented as dlmod with a SET oid which should
> restart the snmpd agent.
> I tried the following but didn't work.
>
> case MODE_SET_COMMIT:
> if( 0 == strncmp("restart", requests->requestvb->val.string,
> requests->requestvb->val_len) ) {
> system("/etc/init.d/snmpd restart &", NULL);
> exit(0);
> }
> break;
>
> With above code restart fails with socket unavailable error.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Santosh
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