How to suppress verbose snmpd messages in /var/log/messages

[Yong Huang]

Followup to my own message. I was wrong in saying there was no way. It's actually simple. I created /etc/snmpd/snmpd.options by mistake. It should be /etc/snmp/snmpd.options. The directory was wrong. It's wrong in the article I originally followed (www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kimihia/net-snmp).

Yong Huang


--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Yong Huang <yong321 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Yong Huang <yong321 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: How to suppress verbose snmpd messages in /var/log/messages
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:16 PM
>
> It looks like there's no way to turn that off. We're
> using 5.3.1:
> 
> # snmpd -v
> 
> NET-SNMP version:  5.3.1
> Web:               http://www.net-snmp.org/
> Email:             net-snmp-coders at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> And according to
> http://www.mail-archive.com/net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11155.html
> dontLogTCPWrappersConnects does not work. And that
> directive should be in snmpd.conf under /etc/snmp, not 
> 
> > From: Yong Huang <yong321 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: How to suppress verbose snmpd messages in /var/log/messages
> > 
> > # 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