Why is avahi-daemon being started?

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 21:18 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 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.

Shouldn't be. 'Should-start' means 'if this other service is enabled, it
should be started before this one': it's not a strict dependency, 'this
other service MUST be started before this one'.
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