Tim Alberts wrote:
I see in FC6 that this avahi-daemen seems to always get installed and
always wants to be run from the bootup scripts.
It appears to be a network service discovery program. Does Fedora 6
use it, does fedora 6 need it, and if so, what services does it
discover and what configuration does it need (if any)?
Tim,
From '/etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi-daemon':
# description: This is a daemon which runs on client machines to perform \
# Zeroconf service discovery on a network. avahi-daemon
must be \
# running on systems that use Avahi for service discovery. \
# Avahi-daemon should not be running otherwise.
I don't use Zeroconf <http://www.zeroconf.org/>, so as part of my
post-install routine I turn this service off and remove the Zeroconf
route by adding the following line to '/etc/sysconfig/network':
NOZEROCONF=yes
So far this has never caused any problems on the dozen or so machines
I've done it to.
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
