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I'm seeing a lot of messages like this in /var/log/messages:
Mar 4 21:25:48 db1 snmpd[31684]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:45788
Mar 4 21:25:48 db1 snmpd[31684]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:45788
Seems to happen every 20 seconds or so. I'm not sure why this is happening, is there a way to turn off the SNMP to stop it from trying to connect to localhost every few seconds or disable the logging?
Something is polling SNMP at a ludicrous interval. I don't know why/what is polling, maybe for gathering statistics, so shutting down the SNMP daemon may affect that. If it's logging you're concerned about your `man snmpd` shows you how to redirect logging to its own logfile (log facility) or not log anything at all (-l /dev/null IIRC).
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