> I know of, but am not that familiar with, mrtg. I thought it used > perl-snmp for its data collection. Is this not correct?
That's right, mrtg uses perl-snmp but you can create custom scripts which are used to generate statistics for other values than traffic. For these scripts many people (including myself) use snmpwalk/snmpget in shell scripts. > > This does not solve the problem. Can someone tell me how we can get a > > solution for this problem? > > Well, I don't anticipate changing SNMP implementations again, so once > your scripts are changed, you shouldn't have any more problems. If > you absolutely can't change your scripts, you could try to convince > someone to patch UCD SNMP to support a CMU/Linux compatible output > format and contribute it to the UCD folks. I don't want a solution for this snmp problem but for a debian problem which this actually is. How can we find a way for debian to produce a changelog for user-visible changes like that? That's the solution I want. I just don't want that to happen again in snmp or any other package.
