Why is avahi-daemon being started?

[Nataraj]

Nataraj wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
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>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:39:55 +0200
>> drago01 wrote:
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>>>> finally squash avahi-daemon :-).  
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>>> What did it ever do to you?
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>> I utterly despise all "helpful" software that automatically
>> "discovers" things and triggers annoying sequences of
>> events on my computer. If something happens, I want it to
>> be because I told it to happen :-).
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/stick/stick.html
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> I'm inclined to agree with Tom here.  While I wouldn't choose the the 
> word despise, I have found the avahi-daemon to be annoying, including 
> the fact that in current releases of Redhat, if I use chkconfig to 
> disable it, updates turn it back on again and as Tom pointed out, it has 
> so many dependencies, that the only way to remove it is to ignore the 
> them.  For most of the servers that I build, security is an issue and a 
> part of my approach is to disable all unneeded services.
>
> So anything that I disable, I did so for a reason, and I find that a 
> system that keeps trying to say, no, you really don't want to disable 
> this and finds ways to turn it back on again is in conflict with my 
> approach to security.  This includes updates as well as startup scripts.
>
> Nataraj
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>   
I will correct myself, and say that the avahi daemon gets turned back on 
again by updates in CentOS.  I don't know if this is the case with 
Redhat, since the package update mechanism may differ.

Nataraj