You are running a pretty old (> 2 years) old version of openBSD. Perhaps it is a bug that has been fixed in a later release?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 06:11:37PM +0100, Alex Naumov wrote: > # /etc/rc.d/snmpd restart > httpd2 (pid 29518) already running > > # uname -a > OpenBSD name 5.2 GENERIC#278 i386 > > # ps aux | grep snmpd > root 23284 0.0 0.1 556 980 ?? Is Wed04PM 0:00.00 > snmpd: parent (snmpd) > _snmpd 28300 0.0 0.1 676 1380 ?? I Wed04PM 0:00.55 > snmpd: snmp engine (snmpd) > root 23789 0.0 0.0 592 4 p0 R+ 6:06PM 0:00.00 grep > snmpd (ksh) > > # ls -la /var/run/ > total 192 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Mar 25 16:59 . > drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 512 Mar 29 2014 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Nov 13 08:17 cron.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 49152 Nov 13 08:17 dev.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9124 Nov 13 08:17 dmesg.boot > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 Nov 13 08:17 inetd.pid > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 12460 Nov 13 08:17 ld.so.hints > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 13 08:17 rc.d > -rw------- 1 root wheel 70 Nov 13 08:17 sendmail.pid > srw-rw---- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 25 16:59 snmpd.sock > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 Nov 13 08:17 sshd.pid > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6 Nov 13 08:17 syslog.pid > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 7200 Mar 26 18:04 utmp > > > > Please look at first command's output. It looks like a bug or > something like this. > Of course I can find a pid and than kill this process, but... > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Joshua Smith <jsm...@mail.wvnet.edu> wrote: > > /etc/rc.d/snmpd restart always worked > > > > for me to restart snmpd. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 06:02:30PM +0100, Alex Naumov wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I just want to ask about snmpd(8). As I can see, snmpd don't create > >> pid file in /var/run directory. > >> Is it correct? > >> How to reboot this daemon? There is just sock-file. > >> > >> Thank you, > >> Alex > > > > -- > > Joshua Smith > > > > Montani Semper Liberi -- Joshua Smith Montani Semper Liberi
