[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#475158: snmpd: keeps complaining on missing /proc/ stats inside vserver flooding syslog

[Olivier Berger]

Package: snmpd
Version: 5.4.1~dfsg-6
Severity: normal

Hi.

The snmp daemon complains every 5 seconds or so about missing lines in /proc/stat when running inside a vserver :

Apr  9 14:26:47 vsgranulite snmpd[4458]: No page line in /proc/stat 
Apr  9 14:26:47 vsgranulite snmpd[4458]: No swap line in /proc/stat 

There doesn't seem to be any way to configure it so it wouldn't check these.

Even if the message is not so long, syslog becomes polluted quite fast.

Some way to suppress continuous logging of these erros, for instance by logging it only on first time would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.107        add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.5.20       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.7-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libsnmp15                   5.4.1~dfsg-6 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.dbs-14   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra

snmpd recommends no packages.

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  snmpd/upgradefrom521: