Comment 0 for bug 104738

Revision history for this message
Colm MacCarthaigh (colm-stdlib) wrote : net-snmp-config should use /bin/bash

Binary package hint: libsnmp9-dev

root@lux-master:/etc/snmp# net-snmp-config --create-snmpv3-user -ro -a "<censored>" venice
adding the following line to /var/lib/snmp/snmpd.conf:
   createUser venice MD5 "<censored>" DES
adding the following line to /usr/share/snmp/snmpd.conf:
   rouser venice
shift: 485: can't shift that many

dash can't handle the number of shift in the shell script. Changing it to use /bin/bash makes it work fine :-)

Issue found on edgy.