Greetings, I'm using a pre-packaged net-snmp 5.2.3 (debian's) and need to tell snmpd to look for and save configuration and persistent data only to /etc/.
I have tried setting: export SNMPCONFPATH=/etc/snmp:/etc/snmp/persistent export SNMP_PERSISTENT_FILE=/etc/snmp/persistent/snmpd.conf which seems to half work in the most annoying ways: 1. If I start snmpd with no persistent data, it generates a file: # wc /etc/snmp/persistent/snmpd.conf 48 121 866 /etc/snmp/persistent/snmpd.conf ------------------------------------------- setserialno 1598857342 ifXTable .1 18:0x 14:0 $ ifXTable .2 18:0x 14:0 $ ifXTable .3 18:0x 14:0 $ ifXTable .4 18:0x 14:0 $ ifXTable .5 18:0x 14:0 $ ifXTable .6 18:0x 14:0 $ ifXTable .8 18:0x 14:0 $ engineBoots 1 oldEngineID 0x80001f8880a8b75f627cc9ed45 ------------------------------------------ 2. When I stop the daemon, it appends the same data to the file: # wc /etc/snmp/persistent/snmpd.conf 96 242 1732 /etc/snmp/persistent/snmpd.conf 3. When I append a createUser directive to the file, eg. createUser userv3 MD5 "AuthPassphrase" DES PrivPassphrase and run snmpd, I see the daemon at least reading the line: read_config: /etc/snmp/persistent/snmpd.conf:49 examining: createUser userv3 MD5 "AuthPassphrase" DES PrivPassphrase *and* regenerating the persistent data file, adding the line usmUser 1 3 0x80001f88805a5d091f34cbed45 0x75736572763300 0x75736572763300 NULL .1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.1.2 0x19d348eaf08410f1f7a277c4294e06cd .1.3.6.1.6.3.10.1.2.2 0x6c307e335f8d8f5c57d94bb86d050e33 "" Unfortunately, it again adds it all to the previous contents, including the createUser line. 4. Stopping the daemon *again* appends the same data to the persistent conf file, including the usmUser line... If I use the default paths - especially leaving persistent data in /var/lib/snmp/, I do not see this behaviour. Does anyone have an idea what might be going amiss here? Thanks in advance, Michael Leslie, Ruggedcom Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users