Can someone here tell me in simple terms what avahi daemon handles? I am seeing message in my /var/log/messages which bothers me...
=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jan 18 09:01:24 penguin ifplugd(eth1)[4223]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth1 up'. Jan 18 09:01:26 penguin NET[4549]: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post : updated /etc/resolv.conf Jan 18 09:01:26 penguin ifplugd(eth1)[4223]: Program executed successfully. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 15) and group 'avahi' (GID 106). Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: avahi-daemon 0.6.21 starting up. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.100. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Network interface enumeration completed. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Registering new address record for feXX::219:b9xx:fe5c:cdbf on eth1.*. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.100 on eth1.IPv4. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'. Jan 18 09:01:27 penguin kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Jan 18 09:01:28 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Server startup complete. Host name is penguin.local. And then Jan 18 09:01:28 penguin avahi-daemon[4733]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on penguin" (/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Is this the normal behaviour? especially "Successfully dropped root privileges." portion.... Can I disable/stop avahi and still continue to work day-in-day-out? Thanks in advance. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
