[ILUG] Dept of utterly useless error messages

[Niall O Broin]

On 16 May 2006, at 14:18, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Every now and then I get a spate of error messages in /var/log/ 
> messages like
>
> May 16 13:46:50 alfred snmpd[2324]: netsnmp_assert index == tmp failed
> if-mib/data_access/interface.c:468 _access_interface
> _entry_save_name()
> May 16 13:47:50 alfred last message repeated 2 times
> May 16 13:49:20 alfred last message repeated 3 times
>
> I googled for this, but only found other people equally baffled.
>
> Linux error messages really are ubelievably bad.
> How could any sane person write a program which produces the above  
> message?

It's a message from snmpd. Somehow I don't think you want to run  
snmpd, so if you stop doing that, you'll certainly stop getting those  
error messages.

> I'm thinking of going over to Minix-3.

Good luck with that Tim.



Niall