Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-30 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:39:10 +, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> According to your description above, the config file Dave> setting ("public") should take precedence over the Dave> short command line argument "-c private". Dave> But it doesn't, and it's right not to. That's u

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas Anders
Dave Shield wrote: Having (visible) command-line arguments ignored because of (invisible) config settings is Just Plain Wrong. At the very least, this should issue a warning. I tend to concur. +Thomas -- Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de) ---

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-30 Thread Dave Shield
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:22 -0800, Wes Hardaker wrote: > Sadly, it's not a bug. > It's a feature!!! > > It's a long standing issue. precedence for net-snmp, which is quite > unique to our package, is in order (1 being trumped by 2): > > 1) short command line arguments > 2) config files > 3) long

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-29 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:17:05 +, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> The output formatting options that I specify on the command line do >> not appear to override the options found in my ~/.snmp/snmp.conf >> file. if I remove oidOutputFormat from my snmp.conf file and >> specif

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Bradford Ritchie
Sure thing.  I suppose I should take the time to figure out which options are affected and which (such as -c & -v) are not. Thanks. -- BradOn 11/10/05, Dave Shield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 15:25 -0500, Bradford Ritchie wrote:> The output formatting options that I specify on

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Shield
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 15:25 -0500, Bradford Ritchie wrote: > The output formatting options that I specify on the command line do > not appear to override the options found in my ~/.snmp/snmp.conf > file. if I remove oidOutputFormat from my snmp.conf file and > specify both -Of and -Os on the

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-09 Thread Thomas Anders
Bradford Ritchie wrote: This is getting pretty frustrating actually the more I use the various commands. The config files should allow me to set my own defaults but shouldn't lock me into those choices. Now I can't get more verbose output unless I comment out or rename my snmp.conf file first

Re: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-09 Thread Bradford Ritchie
This is getting pretty frustrating actually the more I use the various commands.  The config files should allow me to set my own defaults but shouldn't lock me into those choices.  Now I can't get more verbose output unless I comment out or rename my snmp.conf file first. If I were to come up wit

RE: command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-07 Thread Marc Wiatrowski
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Bradford Ritchie > > I can override the version and community string on the > command line using -v and -c. But the oidOutputFormat is > always used even if I specify -Of on the command line.

command line options vs. snmp.conf

2005-11-04 Thread Bradford Ritchie
The output formatting options that I specify on the command line do not appear to override the options found in my ~/.snmp/snmp.conf file.  Assuming this is the expected behavior, is it really what's intended?  I would think that the command line options should have the last say. The documentation