ntpsnmpd beta

Ian Bruene ianbruene at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 19:26:31 UTC 2018



On 02/16/2018 01:09 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Ian Bruene via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
>> Query: what file can/should I use for config data that ntpsnmpd needs to be
>> able to change on the fly?
> Does a human ever set this data?  If not, there's a (weak) convetion of
> putting the file in /var/run.

There are two sets of configuration data: the usual server and logging 
settings, and the flags which control which notifications are active.

Server settings do not require changes while the daemon is running.

Notification flags can be set from the SNMP side, and as such do require 
updating from the program itself.

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