Why is avahi-daemon being started?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 13:42:38 UTC 2010


On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:51:09 +0100
Adam Williamson wrote:

> > 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'.

Yea, changing the comment there didn't fix anything, but it was a good
hint since I finally found the "mdns_adv" setting in the libvirtd.conf
file and uncommenting it did finally squash avahi-daemon :-).


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