SNMPD syslog entries

Red Hat Knowledgebase: How can I fix the excessive logging of snmpd in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 5?

When you install Redhat Linux snmpd logging is cranked way up for syslog which can start to fill up your /var/log/messages file fairly quickly if you are using some sort of network monitoring software such as Orion. I personally don't want to see all of the snmpd connections coming to my server so you need to tell the snmpd daemon not to log extensively to syslog.

In /etc/init.d/snmpd, you need to change the options to be:

OPTIONS="-Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a"

I am not sure why this is enabled by default on the latest net-snmp package but nevertheless this will fix the issue.