Hi,

I am trying to run the snmptrapd to capture and log any traps sent to my machine.
When I run it using this command:
snmptrapd -o /home/herry/test.log

Everytime I sent the trap to my machine I get the following lline on the test.log file:
2003-11-13 14:53:21 ECServer [127.0.0.1] (via 127.0.0.1) TRAP, SNMP v1, community public UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdExperimental.990 Enterprise Specific Trap (17) Uptime: 1:44:44.99

So the snmptrapd logs it fine, however when I try to format the log messages to something simpler and run the snmptrapd with the following command:
snmptrapd -o /home/herry/test.log -F "%02.2h:%02.2j"

I don't get nothing at all on my test.log file.

I know that the formatting was correct since if I run the snmptrapd using only the following command:
snmptrapd -P -F "%02.2h:%02.2j"

which makes the snmptrapd printing out the formatted message to stderr (which is the terminal), I get the correct format (which happen only to print out the time the trap was received).

What I don't understand is why it doesn't seem to be able to send the formatted log to the file. Am I missing something here ?

Any one can help ?

I am using RH 9 based linux and snmp software from RPM version 5.0.6-17. ( I installed both the net-snmp and net-snmp-utils rpm)

Thanks a bunch

Try a more recent version (5.1.1). If it still doesn't work, report a bug at
http://www.net-snmp.org/bugs/