Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?
On 05/23/2013 04:46 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote:
> 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
>
Or just tell the system not yo start it in /etc/default/avahi-daemon
>
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Wayne
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