[mrtg] Re: Offlist: How make a linux machine reply to SNMP requests

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

look, you can take this however you want - I don't really care.
I was attempting to help you out, and figured you were an adult and could handle me not taking the time to
spell everything out. My mistake.



My point was that on this list there are many ?s that can be easily answered by reading the information that came with the package.

UCD-SNMP has some (IMHO) great information included in their docs. This was the beginning of this whole dumb mess:

> can somebody help me with a problem with my linux machines. How is the snmp daemon started and configured ?
> I like to measure some parameters by SNMP.


Now, all I can tell for sure from reading this (since no other info was included), was that snmpd was installed.

The instructions for starting/configuring it are included with the source (or man pages).

So, what exactly did I miss? The way I see it:

1) a question was asked
2) said question had an answer available in the docs included with the program
3) I pointed the asker to those docs

Where was I rude? What exactly did I do wrong? Why get angry with me? 

Maybe more info should be included with the question next time.

One more thing - I'm glad to see you got your snmpd going. Can I ask if it was because of a problem with the 
software, or was it because of TFM?


Anyways, I have better things to do than read about my "rudeness" or others "laziness", so I am signing off of this topic
so as to not waste anyone elses time. Feel free to respond to me individually, but please do not SPAM everyone else.
My apologies for starting this thread......





On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:39:18AM +0200, Stefan Larsson spake:



> "Daniel R . Kilbourne" wrote:
> > 
> > Can I ask if you are both normally windows only users?
> 
> No. I'm not. Are you an elite Linux-user? It seems like it.
> 
> > Any and all programs (with a few exceptions) you get for Linux have README files with them.
> 
> No shit sherlock?
> 
> > Read them.
> 
> I'm way ahead of you.
>  
> > The documentation for snmpd was plenty enough for me to get it going, and configure it correctly, they even
> > have an example snmpd.conf
>  
> Yes oh elite one. I have read the README's and i'm normally a Linux-user
> but I just couldn't get snmp to work. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked.
> But I guess you just reacted like a typical elite Linux-user. RTFM. Well
> nevermind, i got it working though, just getting irritated when people
> send these kind of ridiculous replys.
> 
> -- 
> # stefan {position:dobedo-inc.com;height: 182; overflow: hidden;}
> 

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