**** This port installs snmp daemon, include files and libraries but not invoking snmpd by default. If you want to invoke snmpd from startup, put these lines into /etc/rc.conf. snmpd_enable="YES" snmpd_flags="" **** You can specify make variables as: NET_SNMP_SYS_CONTACT="kuriyama@FreeBSD.org" NET_SNMP_SYS_LOCATION="Tokyo, Japan" DEFAULT_SNMP_VERSION=3 NET_SNMP_LOGFILE=/var/log/snmpd.log NET_SNMP_PERSISTENTDIR=/var/net-snmp to define default values (or overwriting defaults). At least setting first two variables, you will not be prompted during configuration process. Or you can set BATCH="yes" to make to avoid interactive configuration.