Cannot disable connection logging

[Aki Tuomi]

snmp daemon keeps spamming logs with

Jan 3 13:09:06 mordor snmpd[2961]: Connection from UDP: [x.x.x.x]:y->[x.x.x.x]

And there is no way to disable this. There is a patch for this, but it is not applied to the lucid version apparently.

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
# apt-cache policy snmpd
snmpd:
  Installed: 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: snmpd 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32.27-grsec x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 3 13:13:53 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
SNMPVersion:
 NET-SNMP version: 5.4.2.1
 Web: http://www.net-snmp.org/
 Email: <email address hidden>
SourcePackage: net-snmp
SyslogSnmptrapd:

mtime.conffile..etc.default.snmpd: 2010-12-14T00:10:35.711867
mtime.conffile..etc.snmp.snmpd.conf: 2011-01-03T12:51:51.842203

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Which patch is this?

chuck

[Aki Tuomi (cmouse-desteem)]

I was sure I saw a patch for this, but now that I tried to find it, I couldn't. It is easy to fix however, by changing allow_severity to LOG_DEBUG. The log entry is useless imho.

[Aki Tuomi (cmouse-desteem)]

*sigh*. After checking this out really carefully I found out that you can disable this message with dontLogTCPWrappersConnects. Too bad that no amount of googling came up with this bit of information. You can close this ticket.