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avahi-daemon
avahi-daemon
I'd love to know what the avahi-daemon does. The man page is most unclear. What would I miss if I just removed it?
Hi,
It has to do with service discovery on your local network, so that you can find shared folders, printers and stuff.
Read more about it at http://avahi.org
/Johan
It has to do with service discovery on your local network, so that you can find shared folders, printers and stuff.
Read more about it at http://avahi.org
/Johan
I only know it gives a warning on mt-daapd (which crashes constantly on my fresh bubba (Write error: Broken pipe. Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?) Aborting.)
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Nov 9 18:22:30 bubba mt-daapd[9700]: *** WARNING *** The programme 'mt-daapd' uses the HOWL compatiblity layer of Avahi.
Nov 9 18:22:30 bubba mt-daapd[9700]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
Nov 9 18:22:30 bubba mt-daapd[9700]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=howl&e=mt-daapd>