On 2016-10-08, Theodore Wynnychenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-10-04, Theodore Wynnychenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> # /usr/local/sbin/snmpd -L e >> kvm_openfiles: Operation not permitted >> kvm_openfiles: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted > > On 2016-10-06, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> Kernel virtual memory access is no longer permitted by the kernel on a >> On 2016-10-04, normally running system. The relevant parts of net-snmp will > need to be >> disabled or rewritten. > > > Thank you (again) for the reply. > Even though I had previously read the (net)snmpd manpage, I went through it > again, and found (apparently, missed it before): > > -r Do not require root access to run the daemon. Specifically, do > not exit if files only accessible to root (such as /dev/kmem > etc.) cannot be opened. > > So, I added 'netsnmpd_flags="-r -u _netsnmp -I -ipv6"' to /etc/rc.conf.local, > and netsmtpd now starts without as expected. > > # rcctl start netsnmpd > netsnmpd(ok) > > Thanks again > >
Ah nice, thanks for tracking that down. I've modified the rc.d script in -current to set this.
