Net-SNMP showing wrong version in Syslog? [closed]

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I built Net-SNMP 5.7.2 from source and installed it. When I run snmpget --version and snmpd --version it displays the correct version.

However only because of the fact that I am experiencing some SNMP related errors at the moment, I checked my /var/log/syslog for any entries. Surprisingly it has the following:

Apr 11 23:07:00 ubuntu snmpd[4281]: Received TERM or STOP signal... shutting down...
Apr 11 23:09:58 ubuntu snmpd[4401]: iquerySecName has not been configured - internal queries will fail
Apr 11 23:09:58 ubuntu snmpd[4401]: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 77: Error: No address associated with hostname
Apr 11 23:09:58 ubuntu snmpd[4401]: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf: line 91: Error: bad SUBTREE object id
Apr 11 23:09:58 ubuntu snmpd[4401]: /etc/snmp/snmp.conf: line 6: Warning: Unknown token: com2sec.
Apr 11 23:09:58 ubuntu snmpd[4401]: net-snmp: 2 error(s) in config file(s)
Apr 11 23:09:58 ubuntu snmpd[4401]: NET-SNMP version 5.4.3

I double checked what PID the daemon it currently running at and it is indeed 4401.

I did not build SNMP version 5.4.3. I'm confused. It is also telling me there are errors in my configuration too, perhaps this is why I am having such problems at the moment because my configuration file is for that of a later version.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hazarding a guess: you didn't remove the original package that came with Ubuntu; you left the locations for the manually compiled version at /usr/local, which (possibly?) come before the ones that came with the OS in the PATH; that would explain the correct version on the command line. The startup scripts use the hardcoded PATH to the old ones?

Edit the init script to point at the new demon :)