#32613 [Bgs->Csd]: php --version fails with snmpapp.conf access error

ID: 32613 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: ric at arizona dot edu -Status: Bogus +Status: Closed Bug Type: SNMP related Operating System: Solaris 8 PHP Version: 4.3.11 New Comment: I have now reverted the memleak fix from PHP_4_3 branch. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-11 23:10:34] sniper@php.net You can very easily control a) the path b) the owner of that path -> not PHP bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-11 22:39:26] jorton@php.net I agree this is a regression; you see the spam similarly in the httpd error_log at each shutdown, if it *can't* create the snmpapp.conf since it's not running as root (at least using the net-snmp default paths in Fedora Core). That looks like a good solution, except it will inhibit *reading* the config data as well, which might not be desired? I'm not familiar with this area at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-11 20:33:55] ric at arizona dot edu After much reading on this, I found the problem to be the snmp_shutdown() call added in php 4.3.11. The fix for the errors this is twofold a) modify php to include netsnmp_ds_set_boolean(NETSNMP_DS_LIBRARY_ID, NETSNMP_DS_LIB_DONT_PERSIST_STATE, 1); in php startup, so the newly added snmp_shutdown call won't try to write data. -AND- b) update to net-snmp-5.2.1 which recognizes the above call. --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-07 01:51:42] ric at arizona dot edu I disagree with the "its net-snmp's fault" response. How can it be net-snmp's problem when php 4.3.10 built with the exact same net-snmp within a couple of hours of building 4.3.11 does not exhibit the problem of trying to write to /var/net-snmp??? Isn't it more likely that there was some change php's use of net-snmp between 4.3.10 and 4.3.11 that triggered this change in behavior? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-04-07 00:26:03] sniper@php.net This is not any PHP bug to fix, complain to the net-snmp people about this. There might be some configuration options in the snmp.conf & friends to control this behaviour.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/32613 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32613&edit=1