On Nov 20, 2007 3:52 PM, Loye Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't be at the meeting today, but I have two issues that trouble me. > > > AVAHI > I absolutely hate avahi. I don't want my machines to be advertising > services and trying to find them, especially when I am running a > server that's connected straight to the Internet. But getting avahi > off a system is harder than I expected, especially since avahi doesn't > seem to have good documentation. > (1) Should avahi ever be on a production server that's exposed to the net? > (2) Is there any documentation on how to get it off the system and > still leave the system in a usable and upgradeable state?
About not starting avahi-daemon: (this is ubuntu/debian specific) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/default/avahi-daemon # 0 = don't start, 1 = start AVAHI_DAEMON_START=1 set it to 0 and then sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop Now on avahi-daemon will never start again If you only want avahi to publish nothing, just read the manpage: avahi-daemon.conf it is in the "SEE ALSO" of avahi-daemon disable-publishing=yes there are a lot of other well documented options to fit your needs About documentation, i think that every avahi tools has a manpage [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man avahi- avahi-autoipd avahi-autoipd.action avahi-daemon avahi-daemon.conf On avahi website: http://avahi.org/wiki/Avah4users#Documentation So what is the missing documentation in avahi? > > DOCUMENTATION > Every package should have a man page as a matter of course, because > the manpage system is the standard documentation This is especially so > in a command-line only environment. manpage-alert tells me that about > 10% of the packages on my server, and 20% of the packages on my Ubuntu > desktop machines, don't have man pages. Substantially all of the > missing man pages are from packages that are maintained by the Ubuntu > community. Debian policy requires man pages before including the > package in the repositories. Every once in a while, some slip into the > repos without the man pages, but mostly Debian does a good job of > requiring this basic level of documentation. > > Happy Trails, > > Loye Young > Isaac & Young Computer Company > Laredo, Texas > http://www.iycc.biz > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- Sebastien Estienne -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
