I had this problem also.
Check /etc/hosts of spaces for 127.0.0.1 or other adress.
The smux in AIX 4.3.2 Maintlevel 2 can't grep the /etc/hosts right.

regards
Uwe

>===== Original Message From "Ardino, Frank J" <SMTP:NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT 
>EDU>
=====
>James,
>Would you take a look at this from the snmpd.log. I turned on trace at 3 for
>snmpd, refreshed and did an ovstart on trapgend and this is what it logged.
>I have since turned off trace and refreshed. I know your busy, if you can
>shed any light it would be appreciated. It's in note pad format.
>
> <<pmr22069.txt>>
>Thanks,
>
>Frank J. Ardino III
>CIGNA Corp.
>Distributed Operations Center
>856.346.5844
>frank.ardino AT cigna DOT com
>
>
>        -----Original Message-----
>        From:   James Shanks [SMTP:James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM]
>        Sent:   Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:46 AM
>        To:     NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
>        Subject:        Re: Trapgend Daemon Not Starting
>
>        Trapgend?  He is a smux peer and I would look in the snmpd.log to
>see what is
>        going on there as well.  snmpd is up, isn't it?
>
>        But trapgend has nothing to do with communication server.  You don't
>mean
>        tralertd daemon, do you?  He would most definitely have a comm
>server dependency
>        because Service Point does.
>
>        James Shanks
>        Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
>
>
>        "Ardino, Frank J" <Frank.Ardino AT CIGNA DOT COM> on 11/16/99 09:05:12 
> AM
>
>        Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager
>on NetView
>              <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
>
>        To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
>        cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
>        Subject:  Trapgend Daemon Not Starting
>
>
>
>
>         I haven't had a problem with this (trapgend), daemon ever. Only
>change I
>        made to the system was migrate/install of Communications Server
>Ver.5.
>        System is AIX 4.3.2 and Netview 5.1. Rebooted this weekend this
>daemon won't
>        come up. Turned all tracing on only noticeable message in
>trapgend.log is
>        something about youLoseBig.
>        I opened a pmr, no luck yet. Wondering if anyone had a similar
>situation or
>        suggestions.
>
>
>        Thanks
>        Frank Ardino
>        Network Management Technical Consultant
>        CIGNA Corp.
>        frank.ardino AT cigna DOT com