Re: [libvirt] Why is avahi-daemon being started?
[adding libvir-list]
On 09/07/2010 07:42 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
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 :-).
I'm wondering if this means that libvirt should change any of its
policies about auto-starting avahi-daemon, or at the very least, if
there is a documentation shortcoming on why libvirt defaults to enabling
this and when you might want to change that default.
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