20120824

Create Empty Disk Image

# dd bs=8192 count=10000 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disk.iso
# mkfs.msdos /tmp/disk.iso

20120815

Redhat enable multipath

# yum install sysfsutils
# yum install device-mapper-multipath
# mpathconf --enable --with_multipathd y

20120814

System log filled by snmpd messages


[root@myxen ~]# tail -5 /var/log/messages
Aug 15 03:19:30 myxen snmpd[10298]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:42695
Aug 15 03:19:45 myxen snmpd[10298]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:40647
Aug 15 03:19:47 myxen snmpd[10298]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:56802
Aug 15 03:20:02 myxen snmpd[10298]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:55952
Aug 15 03:20:02 myxen snmpd[10298]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:33076

Solution:
[root@myxen ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options
# snmpd command line options
# OPTIONS="-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a"
OPTIONS="-LS 4 d -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a"


Logging Options:

For -LF and -LS the priority specification comes before the file or facility token. The priorities recognised are:

0 or ! for LOG_EMERG, 
1 or a for LOG_ALERT, 
2 or c for LOG_CRIT, 
3 or e for LOG_ERR, 
4 or w for LOG_WARNING, 
5 or n for LOG_NOTICE, 
6 or i for LOG_INFO, and 
7 or d for LOG_DEBUG.

-p FILE
Save the process ID of the daemon in FILE.

-a
Log the source addresses of incoming requests.