snmptrapd.conf "forward" directive

[Paul Dowdy]

Hi.  I’m new to this, so please bear with me. We downloaded the net-snmp-5.2.1 gzip file from sourceforge.net, unpacked it into /usr/local/net-snmp-5.2.1, built it, installed it, and lots of functions are working, but ...   I’m trying to configure the snmptrapd to forward traps as advertised on the following ... http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/man/snmptrapd.conf.html   forward OID|default DESTINATION Forwards traps received to DESTINATION if they match the notification type indicated by OID (or the word default forwards them all).   When i start the program, the following output is displayed ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]//var$  /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -o /var/net-snmp/snmptrapd.log -C -c /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf & [1] 15638 /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf: line 2: Warning: Unknown token: forward.     Help commands output the following ...   [EMAIL PROTECTED]//var$ snmptrapd -H /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf: line 2: Warning: Unknown token: forward. Configuration directives understood:   In snmptrapd.conf and snmptrapd.local.conf:     traphandle               oid|"default" program [args ...]     createUser               username (MD5|SHA) passphrase [DES [passphrase]]     format1                  format     format2                  format     dontRetainLogs           (1|yes|true|0|no|false)     engineID                 string     engineIDType             num     engineIDNic              string PLUS MORE not included here.   [EMAIL PROTECTED]//var$ snmptrapd -h Usage: snmptrapd [OPTIONS] [LISTENING ADDRESSES]           NET-SNMP Version:  5.0.9         Web:      http://www.net-snmp.org/         Email:    net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net PLUS MORE not included here.       Can you provide any suggestions? Also, the –Lf log-file-name doesn’t seem to work either; hence, the use of the  -o command line argument.   thx.  pd  :-)