Ahh. Much appreciated. Garyc
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Story (Users)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gary Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Being persistent with persistence > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:51:36 -0500 Gary wrote: > GC> This is what confused me. I have two configuration files both called > GC> snmpd.conf. > GC> One is for persistence and one is for general configuration which is > GC> produced using snmpconf -g basic_setup. > GC> My SNMPCONFPATH was set to the point general at /usr/var/local/share. The > GC> persistence configuration resides in /var/net-snmp. > GC> > GC> I was manually inserting my token into the persistence file. Thinking that > GC> it would be > GC> read and my callback function would be called. Idiot, total idiot. The > GC> callback function would only be called if the token resided in the > GC> snmpd.conf file pointed to...yes you get it SNMPCONFPATH. > GC> At some point I must of altered this environment variable to point to > GC> /var/net-snmp and pick up the tokens. > GC> > GC> The reason why I am doing this. Basically when the agent restarts I want to > GC> pull the tokens from the persistence and re-create the oids. > GC> > GC> The question begs. The SNMPCONFPATH points to the general agent > GC> configuration. > > No, SNMPCONFPATH is a path. If there are multipe directories, multiple files > can be read. If you unset SNMPCONFPATH, you'll find that both will magically be > read. Run with-Dread_config to watch it in action. The default will look > something like this: > > read_config: reading premib configuration tokens > read_config: config path used: > /usr/local/etc/snmp:/usr/local/share/snmp:/usr/local/lib/snmp:/home/rks/.snm p: > /var/net-snmp > > > GC> Should there be two configuration files? > GC> I think there should just be one right? > > Nope. The persistence file is separate because it is re-written by the agent. > The main configuration file is usually pretty static. > > -- > Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie <http://www.net-snmp.org/> > <irc://irc.freenode.net/#net-snmp> > Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=net-snmp-users> > > You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
