Do I need avahi?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.07.2013 16:06, schrieb Tom Horsley:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 15:55:49 +0200
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> And is anything likely to go wrong if I simply "service avahi-daemon stop"?
> 
> Well, it will probably start back up again due to some sort of
> systemd dependency.
> 
> I do
> 
> systemctl mask avahi-daemon.service
> 
> and usually add
> 
> systemctl mask dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
> 
> as well. ("mask" is the systemd word meaning "disable",
> I have no idea what "disable" means to systemd, because
> it never seems to disable anything)

surely

systemctl disable httpd.service dovecot.service postfix.service

disableds the 3 services and nothing will start them again
the problem with avahi and friends is that they are not enabled
at all, they are dbus fired up by events which is a misdesign
from the classical unix point of view

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