<![CDATA[snmptt does not start]]>One of my pfSenses was caught by the recent repo update self-breakage, and spontaneously decided to uninstall (nearly) all its packages. I have reinstalled them, but now the snmptt daemon won't start, or rather, it does not keep going once started.

When I start it by hand (/usr/local/sbin/snmptt --daemon), it dies again after a second or so. This message appears in the log:

Could not change to UID: 895, GID: 895

I have no idea what is going on. As a workaround, if I start it as daemon -u snmptt /usr/local/sbin/snmptt --daemon, it works. (The effect of this command is that setuid is started as its user and does not need to change identities.) However, this is not reliable because if I change any options in snmptt's configuration page and save, the web UI restarts snmptt, and the restarted process dies again as above.

How do I fix this?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/161019/snmptt-does-not-startRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 11:12:25 GMTThu, 18 Feb 2021 16:09:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to snmptt does not start on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:45:48 GMT]]>Never mind, it's a bug in snmptt. As part of yesterday's festivities, the 1.4.2 update reached my box, and that has a bug that keeps it from working in daemon mode (no idea about standalone).

If you find yourself in this situation, see https://sourceforge.net/p/snmptt/bugs/47/ for the fix.

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