SNMP submodule uses BerkeleyDB, violates ability to use SNMP submodule

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Saturday, December 05, 2015 7:34 AM +0100 Patrick Ben Koetter 
<p at sys4.de> wrote:

> * Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah at zimbra.com>:
>> --On Friday, December 04, 2015 4:18 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount
>> <quanah at zimbra.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Due to licensing changes perpetrated by Oracle to make BDB unusable, I
>> > find it curious that the Amavisd SNMP subagent depends on BDB.
>> >
>> > See also:
>> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database>
>> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Database#Licens
>> > e_I ssues>
>>
>> Heh, sent that before finishing my thoughts.
>>
>> It would be nice if the module could be updated to use a backend
>> that is actually FOSS, rather than one encumbered with hostile
>> licensing, such as LMDB.
>>
>> There is currently the LMDB_File perl module for this purpose.  I
>> don't know if it will or will not suit the purposes of the amavisd
>> snmp subagent, as I haven't looked in depth how amavisd uses the
>> BerkeleyDB module.
>
> Have you had a look at zmq support in amavisd?
>
> $enable_db = 0;
> $enable_zmq = 1;
>
> Once you have that in place, you can run the newer
> amavisd-snmp-subagent-zmq agent in combination with amavis-mc:

Ah perfect, thanks.  I didn't realize you could use one over the other. :)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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