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<manpage name="avahi-daemon" section="8" desc="The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon">
<synopsis>
<cmd>avahi-daemon [<arg>options</arg>]</cmd>
<cmd>avahi-daemon <opt>--kill</opt></cmd>
<cmd>avahi-daemon <opt>--reload</opt></cmd>
<cmd>avahi-daemon <opt>--check</opt></cmd>
<cmd>avahi-daemon <opt>--version</opt></cmd>
<cmd>avahi-daemon <opt>--help</opt></cmd>
</synopsis>
<description>
<p>The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implementing 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 DBUS interface which provides a rich object
oriented interface to DBUS enabled applications.</p>
<p>Upon startup avahi-daemon interpretes its configuration file
@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf and reads XML fragments from
@servicedir@/*.service which may define static DNS-SD
services.</p>
</description>
<options>
<option>
<p><opt>-f | --file=</opt> <arg>FILE</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>Specify the configuration file to read. (default: @pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf)</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-D | --daemonize</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Daemonize avahi-daemon after startup and redirect log messages to syslog.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-k | --kill</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Kill an already running avahi-daemon. (equivalent to sending a SIGTERM)</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-r | --reload</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Tell an already running avahi-daemon to reread the files from @servicedir@/. (equivalent to sending a SIGHUP)</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-c | --check</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Return 0 as return code when avahi-daemon is already running.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Show help</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-v | --version</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Show version information </p></optdesc>
</option>
</options>
<section name="Files">
<p><file>@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf</file>: the default configuration file for avahi-daemon.</p>
<p><file>@servicedir@/*.service</file>: static service definitions.</p>
</section>
<section name="Signals">
<p><arg>SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT</arg>: avahi-daemon will shutdown. This is issued by passing --kill to avahi-daemon.</p>
<p><arg>SIGHUP</arg>: avahi-daemon will reload the static service definitions from @servicedir@/.</p>
<p><arg>SIGUSR1</arg>: avahi-daemon will dump local and remote cached resource record data to syslog.</p>
</section>
<section name="Authors">
<p>The avahi developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; avahi is
available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
</section>
<section name="See also">
<p>
<manref name="avahi-dnsconfd" section="8"/>, <manref name="avahi-daemon.conf" section="5"/>
</p>
</section>
<section name="Comments">
<p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1"
href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by Oliver Kurth.</p>
</section>
</manpage>
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