Why is avahi-daemon being started?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 01:18:08 UTC 2010


On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:22:50 -0700
Jon Hermansen wrote:

> What is the parent PID and process name of the running avahi-daemon you
> found?

I think I looked at that and it was owned by init, but that might
just mean someone started it with the double-fork technique.

I did find a "Should-start: avahi-daemon" comment in the libvirtd
init script, so maybe that is the source.


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