Bug#382378: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#382378: snmpd 5.1.2-6.2 bug

[Jochen Friedrich]

merge 308018 382361 382378
thanks

Hi Jimmy,

> When I query a debian 3.1 server using snmp for idle ticks which should
> indicate that the server is loaded or not. After a large amount of
> uptime (circa 270days) the servers all report the idle ticks not
> increasing even though the server has been idle for some time. If I run
> the following command  awk '/^cpu / {print $5}' /proc/stat I can see
> that the counter is still incrementing but snmpd reports
> 
> UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuRawIdle.0 = Counter32: 4294967295


This is already documented in #308018. The bug should be fixed in testing
(currently with version 5.2.2-5). As this bug isn't security related, it
won't be fixed in the current stable branch. However, i'm considering
uploading a 5.2.2-4.backports.org.1 to backports.org for those who want
to try a newer version on sarge.

Thanks,
Jochen