[Bug 845247] [NEW] SNMP mibs +all does not work in snmpd.conf

[john fisher]

Public bug reported:

In order to translate SNMP Objects  to oids  you need the mib. After you install your mib in /usr/share/snmp/mibs and restart snmpd:
snmptranslate  -m all -Onf -IR MyMIBObject ......works
but
snmptranslate  Onf -IR MyMIBObject ...... fails

Adding "mibs +all" to snmpd.conf does not work as the documentation says
it should. There is no snmp.conf in /etc/snmp.

To get the translation to work you need $HOME/.snmp/snmp.conf with "mibs
+all" in it.

What should happen is the package creates $HOME/.snmp/snmp.conf
automatically and adds  "mibs +all"  as a default if thats appropriate.
Documentation should change to make it clear what is controlled by
snmp.conf ( and maybe there should be a global one too) and by
snmpd.conf

Ubuntu 10.04 
root at john:~# dpkg -l | grep snmp
ii  libgsnmp0                            0.2.0-3                                        
ii  libnet-snmp-perl                     5.2.0-3                                         
ii  libsnmp-base                         5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1                 
ii  libsnmp-perl                         5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1                 
ii  libsnmp15                            5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1                
ii  nagios-snmp-plugins                  1.1.1-6                                        
ii  php5-snmp                            5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9                              
ii  snmp                                 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1                 
ii  snmp-mibs-downloader                 1.0                                            
ii  snmpd                                5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1

** Affects: net-snmp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  SNMP mibs +all does not work in snmpd.conf

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