Check_ifstatus / SNMP.pm problem

[Nolan Martin]

Executing /usr/bin/perldoc Net::SNMP as root (or as su to root) produces
the error message about superuser (Superuser must not run
/usr.bin/perldoc without security audit and taint checks.)

Executing it as my account produces the man doc pages.  The top snippet
is "SNMP - The Perl5 'SNMP' Extension Module v3.1.0 for the UCD SNMPv3
Library.

I checked my path again.  I also ran a "find / -name perl" and found
four locations with a perl file.  However, only one of those /usr/bin is
within the PATH variable.

Also, if I do "type perl" I am told perl is /usr/bin/perl

>>> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> 10/07/02 11:29PM >>>

what does /usr/bin/perldoc Net::SNMP show?

check your path - you may have another installation of perl 5.6.1 under

/usr/local before /usr/bin.

-sg

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Nolan Martin wrote:

> * The check_ifstatus perl script (unchanged) references
/usr/bin/perl
> * Perl is located in the /usr/bin directory
> * echo $PATH shows /usr/bin listed
> * # perl -v and # /usr/bin/perl -v both find perl and show version
> v5.6.1
> 
> Thanks again for your assistance.  
> 
> Nolan
> 
> >>> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> 10/05/02 09:30AM >>>
> 
> Check the location for perl in your path versus the perl in the #! 
> statement. (or config.status if using embedded perl)
> 
> -sg
> 
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Nolan Martin wrote:
> 
> > Well, okay, I did confuse SNMP.pm for the Net::SNMP perl module. 
:)
> > 
> > I would say this was largely because the first time I ran a
> > check_ifstatus, it complained about not having the SNMP.pm in its
> @INC
> > path....  Once I adjusted it so that it was in its path, that
error
> went
> > away.  I then received the session error message....
> > 
> > But, as I mentioned, based on one of your postings in the
archives,
> I
> > separately attempted to install the Net::SNMP through the CPAN
shell
> and
> > received a response that Net::SNMP is up to date ( perl -MCPAN -e
> > "install Net::SNMP").  So, if I understand correctly, Net::SNMP is
> > installed on the machine.
> > 
> > Thoughts or suggestions as to what I am missing or
misunderstanding?
> 
> > Thanks for your response.
> > 
> > Nolan
> > 
> > 
> > >>> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> 10/04/02 02:38PM >>>
> > Ummm yes and no :)
> > 
> > NET-SNMP package includes the snmp command line utilities used by 
> > check_snmp and the SNMP.pm module.
> > 
> > check_ifstatus and friends require Net::SNMP module -which is an
all
> > perl 
> > snmp manager library implementation.
> > 
> > the names are confusing similar...  the perl modules names are
> actually
> > 
> > different.
> > 
> > -sg
> > 
> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Nolan Martin wrote:
> > 
> > > I am trying to get check_ifstatus going and am having some
> > difficulties
> > > getting NET-SNMP and the Perl SNMP module configured properly.  
> > > 
> > > I have installed both NET-SNMP and the SNMP.pm, but I still
> receive
> > the
> > > following error message, when I attempt to run the
check_ifstatus
> > > command from the nagios libexec directory to test it:
> > > 
> > > # ./check_ifstatus -H 10.5.1.11
> > > Can't locate object method "session" via package "Net::SNMP"
> > (perhaps
> > > you forgot to load "Net::SNMP"?) at ./check_ifstatus line 128.
> > > 
> > > As I mentioned, I installed NET-SNMP and installed the SNMP perl
> > module
> > > following the instructions that accompany both of those
components.
> 
> > I
> > > also followed Subhendu Ghosh's postings from August 21st (RE:
> > > [Nagios-users] SNMP.pm Solution/problem) and attempted to
install
> > > again/verify my perl module installation by installing it using
> the
> > CPAN
> > > shell.  That attempt returns that Net::SNMP is up to date.
> > > 
> > > Obviously, I missed some step or have failed to do some
> > configuration. 
> > > Any assistance would be appreciated. 
> > > 
> > > My system is Red Hat 7.3.  I am running Perl 5.6.1, although
there
> > > appears to be an existing 5.6.0 installation as well.  I am
using
> > the
> > > Nagios Plugins v1.3 Beta1 plugins and the latest version of
> Net-SNMP
> > > 5.0.5 (released 10/1/2002)
> > > 
> > > Here are the steps I went through.
> > > 
> > > INSTALLED NET-SNMP
> > > * Downloaded and extracted Net-SNMP 5.0.5
> > > * ./configure
> > > * make
> > > * umask 022
> > > * make install
> > > 
> > > INSTALLED / VERIFIED PERL SNMP MODULE
> > > * From the perl subdirectory of the extracted NET-SNMP
directory,
> > ran: 
> > > perl Makefile.PL
> > > * make
> > > * make test
> > > * make install
> > > * Since the SNMP.pm was installed to
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux, but my understanding
> was
> > that
> > > NET-SNMP actually looks for it under a directory named Net, I
> created
> > a
> > > directory named Net and copied SNMP.pm to that folder as well. 
> > > * Executing the check_ifstatus now finds the SNMP.pm in its
> included
> > > paths, but produces the session error message
> > > * Tried to install again/verify the SNMP.pm installation by
> > installing
> > > it through the CPAN shell:
> > > perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::SNMP" - That attempt returns that
> > > Net::SNMP is up to date.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
> > > 
> > > Nolan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
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