Well, to answer my own question, I got it to run ... kindof. Here's what I did,
First I needed to add an entry 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib" ' to my /etc/environment file. That helps sudo to know what path to look into. Now, just blindly running the command with "sudo" didn't still help me. I had to use the "-i" setting. So, the final command I ran is this, > sudo -i snmpd -f -Lo -C -c /home/abraham/snmpd.conf NET-SNMP version 5.5 The console window the just stays stuck there without any activity (running "ps -ae" from another console shows that snmpd is running) Now, from another console I try to run this, > snmpget -v 2c -c private localhost sysUpTime.0 Timeout: No Response from localhost. > snmpget -v 2c -c private 127.0.0.1 sysUpTime.0 Timeout: No Response from 127.0.0.1. For some reason snmpget isn't getting any responses. Just to confirm that the port 161 is ACTUALLY in use by snmpd, I run this, > sudo sockstat USER PROCESS PID PROTO SOURCE ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS STATE root sshd 536 tcp4 *:22 *:* LISTEN avahi avahi-daemon 555 udp4 *:5353 *:* CLOSED avahi avahi-daemon 555 udp4 *:58068 *:* CLOSED root dhclient 577 udp4 *:68 *:* CLOSED root cupsd 774 tcp4 127.0.0.1:631 *:* LISTEN root sshd 1204 tcp4 192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.4:4585 ESTABLISHED root sshd 1273 tcp4 192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.4:4585 ESTABLISHED root sshd 1311 tcp4 192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.4:4592 ESTABLISHED root sshd 1375 tcp4 192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.4:4592 ESTABLISHED root ping 1392 raw *:1 *:* CLOSED root snmpd 1411 udp4 *:161 *:* CLOSED The good news is that snmpd has indeed latched itself to UDP:161. BUT, the status is shown as "CLOSED". Did I compile it wrong? For reference here is the configuration file I'm using (created with snmpconf) > cat snmpd.conf ########################################################################### # # snmpd.conf # # - created by the snmpconf configuration program # ########################################################################### # SECTION: Access Control Setup # # This section defines who is allowed to talk to your running # snmp agent. # rocommunity: a SNMPv1/SNMPv2c read-only access community name # arguments: community [default|hostname|network/bits] [oid] rocommunity public > For the sake of legibility, I've removed a lot of blank lines from the above output. Anyone have any clues on what could be going on here? Stumped, Abraham Varricatt On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, rakesh zingade <rakeshzing...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess the port 161 is in use .. try with some other port > > check using > # netstat -an | grep 161 > before running snmpd on udp161 .. > > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Abraham Varricatt > <abraham.varricatt+s...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> I think I'm almost there now. Running your suggestion gave me this, >> >> > snmpd -f -Lo -C -c snmpd.conf >> Error opening specified endpoint "" >> Server Exiting with code 1 >> >> I felt that the endpoint needed to get mentioned so, >> >> > snmpd -f -Lo udp:161 -C -c snmpd.conf >> Error opening specified endpoint "udp:161" >> Server Exiting with code 1 >> >> I read online about using "sockstat" to see if the port was in-use, >> but it turns out nothing's running there. A little later I discovered >> that ports below 1024 are locked out of regular users. So I tried >> running the above command with sudo (there is no root user in ubuntu) >> and I get this, >> >> > sudo snmpd -f -Lo udp:161 -C -c snmpd.conf >> snmpd: error while loading shared libraries: libnetsnmpagent.so.20: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> >> It's similar to my first problem (different email) but I can't figure >> out how to get sudo to recognize my "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" variable that I >> mentioned in my ".bashrc" file. >> >> Hints/Help? >> >> Even more puzzled, >> Abraham Varricatt >> >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, rakesh zingade <rakeshzing...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Try executing snmpd on foreground >> > >> > # snmpd -f -Lo -C -c <path for snmpd.conf> >> > >> > see if it generate any error message .. >> > >> > check for valid config stuff in snmpd.conf.. snmpconf -g basic_setup may >> > help to configure snmpd.conf >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Abraham Varricatt >> > <abraham.varricatt+s...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> I've done a compile & install of net-snmp 5.5 according to the >> >> instructions in INSTALL. How do I start the snmpd agent on my system ? >> >> (Ubuntu 10.04 running in VirtualBox) >> >> >> >> This doesn't work, >> >> >> >> > snmpd -c .snmp/snmpd.conf >> >> > snmpget -v 2c -c private localhost SNMPv2-MIB::sysUpTime.0 >> >> Timeout: No Response from localhost. >> >> >> >> In fact, I don't see snmpd anywhere when I try "ps -ae" either ! >> >> >> >> Puzzled, >> >> Abraham Varricatt >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >> >> >> >> Show off your parallel programming skills. >> >> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Rakesh P. 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