Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:39:16PM -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to
> Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. :-)
>
> A question that I've been pondering for a while now: Is the
> avahi-daemon *really* needed?
I've disabled it, and haven't needed it. Here's more on what it's for:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/avahi-daemon
So it seems you'd only need it if you want auto-discovery for printers and other
devices on your network.
You should be able to disable it with:
update-rc.d avahi-daemon disable
This leaves it installed, to satisfy the dependencies you're seeing, but causes it
not to start when you reboot.
To stop it before rebooting:
service avahi-daemon stop
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