====== Make SNMP quiet in messages log ====== SNMP daemon will by default generate a lot of noise in /var/log/messages: Aug 28 04:08:50 snmpd[3664]: Connection from UDP: []:1921\\ Aug 28 04:10:22 last message repeated 3 times\\ Aug 28 04:11:25 last message repeated 50 times\\ Aug 28 04:11:41 last message repeated 33 times Add following into /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options and restart SNMP daemon to get rid of these messages echo 'OPTIONS="-LS 5 d -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a"' >> /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options service snmpd restart [[http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/snmpd-filling-up-varlogmessages]]