On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:38 -0800, Li Juen Hwang wrote:
What's wrong with shutting down agent with kill -9?
Should should *NEVER* terminate *ANY* application with kill -9,
unless you've tried to shut it down cleanly first. Blindly using
kill -9 is a sign of a slapdash and unprofessional
[Please don't start multiple threads with
effectively the same question in each.
It just increases the support load.]
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:40 -0800, stan buyanov wrote:
My questions are:
1) Who creates/deletes? /var/agentx/master?
The (master) agent should create
Hi, Dave:
2) Is it a big deal that I removed /var/agentx/master?
No.
The socket itself (master) should be removed automatically
when the agent shuts down. So it might be worth checking
that no other SNMP agent is currently running.
Alternatively, how do you shut down the agent?
Li Juen Hwang wrote:
What's wrong with shutting down agent with kill -9? What does it
indicate?
I ask because currently my agent (a master agent, not a subagent) can
only
be shut down by kill -9. It is launched with -f -L -M -D as a
thread on
RH by a main program which will then connect to the
Hello,I am running snmpd v5.3.0.1. Upon running snmpdemoapp I got the following message: ack: Unknown host (test.net-snmp.org) something horrible happenedFor some wrong reason I removed /var/agentx directory thinking that snmpd would create this named socket again - never happed. I
