| .TH avahi-daemon 8 User Manuals |
| .SH NAME |
| avahi-daemon \- The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| \fBavahi-daemon [\fIoptions\fB] |
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| avahi-daemon --kill\fB |
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| avahi-daemon --reload\fB |
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| avahi-daemon --check\fB |
| \f1 |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implements Apple's Zeroconf architecture (also known as "Rendezvous" or "Bonjour"). The daemon registers local IP addresses and static services using mDNS/DNS-SD and provides two IPC APIs for local programs to make use of the mDNS record cache the avahi-daemon maintains. First there is the so called "simple protocol" which is used exclusively by avahi-dnsconfd (a daemon which configures unicast DNS servers using server info published via mDNS) and nss-mdns (a libc NSS plugin, providing name resolution via mDNS). Finally there is the D-Bus interface which provides a rich object oriented interface to D-Bus enabled applications. |
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| Upon startup avahi-daemon interprets its configuration file \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf\f1 and reads XML fragments from \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/services/*.service\f1 which may define static DNS-SD services. If you enable \fBpublish-resolv-conf-dns-servers\f1 in \fIavahi-daemon.conf\f1 the file \fI/etc/resolv.conf\f1 will be read, too. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| \fB-f | --file=\f1 \fIFILE\f1 |
| Specify the configuration file to read. (default: /home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf) |
| .TP |
| \fB-D | --daemonize\f1 |
| Daemonize after startup. Implies \fB--syslog\f1. |
| .TP |
| \fB-s | --syslog\f1 |
| Log to syslog instead of STDERR. Implied by \fB--daemonize\f1. |
| .TP |
| \fB--debug\f1 |
| Increase verbosity to debug level. |
| .TP |
| \fB--no-rlimits\f1 |
| Don't enforce resource limits as specified in the configuration file. (See \fBsetrlimit(2)\f1 for more information) |
| .TP |
| \fB--no-drop-root\f1 |
| Don't drop root privileges after startup and don't require daemon to be started as root. We recommend not to use this option. |
| .TP |
| \fB--no-chroot\f1 |
| Don't \fBchroot(2)\f1 the daemon. This option is only available when compiled with chroot() support. |
| .TP |
| \fB--no-proc-title\f1 |
| Don't change the process name while running. Unless this option is specified avahi-daemon will reflect its current state and the selected host name in the process title. |
| .TP |
| \fB-k | --kill\f1 |
| Kill an already running avahi-daemon. (equivalent to sending a SIGTERM) |
| .TP |
| \fB-r | --reload\f1 |
| Tell an already running avahi-daemon to reread \fI/etc/resolv.conf\f1 (in case you enabled \fBpublish-resolv-conf-dns-servers\f1 in \fIavahi-daemon.conf\f1) the files from \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/services/\f1. Please note that this will not reload the \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf\f1. (equivalent to sending a SIGHUP) |
| .TP |
| \fB-c | --check\f1 |
| Return 0 as return code when avahi-daemon is already running. |
| .TP |
| \fB-h | --help\f1 |
| Show help |
| .TP |
| \fB-v | --version\f1 |
| Show version information |
| .SH FILES |
| \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf\f1: the default configuration file for avahi-daemon, \fBavahi-daemon.conf(5)\f1 for more information. |
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| \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/hosts\f1: additional static hostname mappings to publish in mDNS, see \fBavahi.hosts(5)\f1 for more information. |
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| \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/services/*.service\f1: static service definitions, see \fBavahi.service(5)\f1 for more information. |
| .SH SIGNALS |
| \fISIGINT, SIGTERM\f1: avahi-daemon will shutdown. (Same as \fB--kill\f1). |
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| \fISIGHUP\f1: avahi-daemon will reload unicast DNS server data from \fI/etc/resolv.conf\f1 and static service definitions from \fI/home/lennart/tmp/avahi/etc/avahi/services/\f1. (Same as \fB--reload\f1) |
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| \fISIGUSR1\f1: avahi-daemon will dump local and remote cached resource record data to syslog. |
| .SH AUTHORS |
| The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from \fBhttp://avahi.org/\f1 |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| \fBavahi-daemon.conf(5)\f1, \fBavahi.hosts(5)\f1, \fBavahi.service(5)\f1, \fBavahi-dnsconfd(8)\f1, \fBavahi-set-host-name(1)\f1 |
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| http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal documents the problems when using Avahi in a unicast DNS zone .local. |
| .SH COMMENTS |
| This man page was written using \fBxml2man(1)\f1 by Oliver Kurth. |
