# uname -a Linux xxxxxxxx 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 4 03:51:21 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) Every minute I got a lot of lines about snmpd in /var/log/messages: # tail -5 /var/log/messages Oct 22 09:53:04 xxxxxxxx snmpd[5905]: Connection from UDP: [10.111.75.52]:4993 Oct 22 09:53:04 xxxxxxxx snmpd[5905]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [10.111.75.52]:4993 Oct 22 09:53:04 xxxxxxxx snmpd[5905]: Connection from UDP: [10.111.75.52]:4996 Oct 22 09:53:04 xxxxxxxx snmpd[5905]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [10.111.75.52]:4996 Oct 22 09:53:04 xxxxxxxx snmpd[5905]: Connection from UDP: [10.111.75.52]:4996 I followed the procedure at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kimihia/net-snmp and created /etc/snmpd and created snmpd.options file in the directory. # cat /etc/snmpd/snmpd.options #OPTIONS="-LS 5 d -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a" OPTIONS="-Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid" Restarted snmpd service (service snmpd restart). But /var/log/messages still has those messages coming in quickly. The first line in my snmpd.options (now commented out) is taken from http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_10731.shtm and that doesn't work either. But that document on the Redhat site is about RH Linux 4. Ours is 5. Yong Huang -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
