Re: MIB Tree implementation

2011-03-28 Thread Manjit
Thanks David, Are we using any Hash Table or tree implementation in this ? or only list. Regards, Manjit Dave Shield wrote: On 28 March 2011 08:29, Manjit wrote: > How the handlers are registered for a particular oid. This basically uses 'netsnmp_register_handler()' (either dir

Re: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Ravi Kumar
it quits with the same error "initgroups failed: Operation not permitted." even if I run with both options (-u and -g). Thanks, Ravi On 3/29/11, Dave Shield wrote: > On 28 March 2011 19:25, Ravi Kumar wrote: >> Problem comes when I try to switch back to non-root user using -u >> option. Afte

Re: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Dave Shield
On 28 March 2011 19:25, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Problem comes when I try to switch back to non-root user using -u > option. After running snmpd using sudo. In this case snmpd quits with > error "initgroups failed: Operation not permitted." OK - that's useful information. What happens if you try to

Re: installing net-snmp on Solaris 10

2011-03-28 Thread Niels Baggesen
Den 25-03-2011 19:04, Eric Smith skrev: > Is there an option that you provide during "make install" to control > where the PERL SNMP modules are installed? No, it is controlled by the perl that it detects during configure. perl modules is tricky stuff :-) And parallel installs is not at all easy.

Re: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi Dave, when I execute the snmpd command in root account rather than using sudo it works perfectly fine and responses all queries. [root@volga]# /home/ravi/net-snmp-5.5/agent/snmpd -c /home/ravi/net-snmp-5.5/local/snmpd.conf,/var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf -C -f -Le Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At lin

RE: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Friedl
Ok, well probably the next step is to turn on some debugging and/or look around at system logs. What else have you tried to try to figure this out yourself? If you run it *without* -u ravi does it make any difference? Could it be that it's not finding the libraries because sudo changes the path

Re: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Ravi Kumar
snmpd quits. as soon as I execute it. On 3/28/11, Steve Friedl wrote: > What does "unable" mean? What happens when you try? > > -Original Message- > From: Ravi Kumar [mailto:mynets...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:22 AM > To: net-snmp-coders > Subject: unable to run snmpd a

RE: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Steve Friedl
What does "unable" mean? What happens when you try? -Original Message- From: Ravi Kumar [mailto:mynets...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:22 AM To: net-snmp-coders Subject: unable to run snmpd as non-root user Hi, Could any one tell me why the snmpd does not run with sudo as g

Re: unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Dave Shield
On 28 March 2011 17:22, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Could any one tell me why the snmpd does not run with sudo as given below. There's a problem somewhere. Not a very helpful response, I know - but you haven't exactly given us much information to work with. If you want more meaningful assistance, it w

unable to run snmpd as non-root user

2011-03-28 Thread Ravi Kumar
Hi, Could any one tell me why the snmpd does not run with sudo as given below. $ sudo /home/ravi/net-snmp-5.5/agent/snmpd -c /home/ravi/net-snmp-5.5/local/snmpd.conf,/var/net-snmp/snmpd.conf -C -u ravi I am trying to run snmpd as root with sudo command on 161 port and switch back to user ravi u

Re: MIB Tree implementation

2011-03-28 Thread Dave Shield
On 28 March 2011 08:29, Manjit wrote: > > How the handlers are registered for a particular oid. This basically uses 'netsnmp_register_handler()' (either directly, or via another helper registration call, which typically sets up the helper and handler chain information and then calls 'netsnmp_

MIB Tree implementation

2011-03-28 Thread Manjit
Hi All, I am having some query about the netsnmp oid registration concept: > Need to know in brief about the registration of a mib objects in the mib-tree. > How the tree is searched whenever a request arrives for a particular oid. > How the handlers are registered for a particular oid. What d