[ On Thursday, February 8, 2001 at 08:50:03 (+1030), Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: ]
> Subject: ucd-snmp: proposed changes - please read...
>
> The original Makefile configured ucd-snmp to look for MIBs in
> multiple directories including that of the tcl-scotty. This
> has caused error messages due to syntax errors in some MIB file 
> during startup of ucd-snmp resulting in ucd-snmp refusing to
> service requests any connections from snmp clients (the connections
> just timed out).
> 
> Nobody objection, I will implement these changes over the weekend.
> 
> Any comments?

The correct fix is to patch whichever MIB files are causing problems so
that they are usable.

Deleting or ignoring MIBs is not a viable solution if your intent is to
actually use SNMP for anything, at least not unless you want to try and
use raw OIDs everywhere!  :-)

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