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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>
</synopsis>
<description>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Upon startup avahi-daemon interprets its configuration file
<file>@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf</file> and reads XML
fragments from <file>@servicedir@/*.service</file> which may
define static DNS-SD services. If you enable
<opt>publish-resolv-conf-dns-servers</opt> in
<file>avahi-daemon.conf</file> the file
<file>/etc/resolv.conf</file> will be read, too.</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 after startup. Implies <opt>--syslog</opt>.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>-s | --syslog</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Log to syslog instead of STDERR. Implied by <opt>--daemonize</opt>.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>--debug</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Increase verbosity to debug level.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>--no-rlimits</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Don't enforce resource limits as specified in the configuration file. (See <manref section="2" name="setrlimit"/> for more information)</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>--no-drop-root</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Don't drop root priviliges after startup and don't require daemon to be started as root. We recommend not to use this option.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>--no-chroot</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Don't <manref section="2" name="chroot"/> the daemon. This option is only available when compiled with chroot() support.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
<p><opt>--no-proc-title</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>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.</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
<file>/etc/resolv.conf</file> (in case you enabled
<opt>publish-resolv-conf-dns-servers</opt> in
<file>avahi-daemon.conf</file>) the files from
<file>@servicedir@/</file>. Please note that this will not
reload the
<file>@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf</file>. (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, <manref name="avahi-daemon.conf" section="5"/> for more information.</p>
<p><file>@pkgsysconfdir@/hosts</file>: additional static hostname mappings to publish in mDNS, see <manref name="avahi.hosts" section="5"/> for more information.</p>
<p><file>@servicedir@/*.service</file>: static service definitions, see <manref name="avahi.service" section="5"/> for more information.</p>
</section>
<section name="Signals">
<p><arg>SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT</arg>: avahi-daemon will shutdown. (Same as <opt>--kill</opt>).</p>
<p><arg>SIGHUP</arg>: avahi-daemon will reload unicast DNS
server data from <file>/etc/resolv.conf</file> and static
service definitions from <file>@servicedir@/</file>. (Same as <opt>--reload</opt>)</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-daemon.conf" section="5"/>, <manref name="avahi.hosts" section="5"/>, <manref name="avahi.service" section="5"/>, <manref name="avahi-dnsconfd" section="8"/>, <manref name="avahi-set-host-name" section="1"/>
</p>
<p>http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal documents the problems when using Avahi in a unicast DNS zone .local.</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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