Hiya, a net-snmp question for you:
The latest php releases were changed to call snmp_shutdown("snmpapp")
when the php-snmp extension is shut down; this happens each time httpd
is restarted or stopped, or when /usr/bin/php exits.
It seems this wants to write a "persistent data file" at
/var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf, which is not a particularly good location,
nor one permitted by the SELinux policy for httpd, so a bunch of spam
gets sent to stderr instead. You can see this from a vanilla system
using /usr/bin/php, when /var/net-snmp doesn't exist:
[root@trash ~]# php < /dev/null > /dev/null
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
Creating directory: /var/net-snmp
So, some questions:
1. what is this data file for, do we need this file?
2. can the location be changed to something sensible, /var/lib/net-snmp
for instance?
3. should PHP by passing something less generic than "snmpapp" in the
init_snmp() and snmp_shutdown() calls?
Regards,
joe
