[avahi] Fedora support

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Oct 24 00:20:19 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 23:42 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sat, 22.10.05 10:33, Trent Lloyd (lathiat at bur.st) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Alex,
> > 
> > Thanks for that, looks good
> > 
> > 
> > Just one thing
> > 
> > +# Check that networking is configured.
> > +[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
> > 
> > Does that mean, is networing setup yet? avahi will run happily if the
> > interfaces aren't setup, or whatever, and adjust to if they are setup
> > later, so if thats the meaning this isn't really needed, but if it has
> > some other meaning could you explain it?
> 
> I guess that setting means: "this machine should never connect to any
> network and never start any networking related services". So it makes
> sense to check for it in the init script, I guess.
> 
> But I am actually no Fedora guy, I never used Fedora at all. Just my
> educated guess.

Yes, thats about what it means. Its a way to totally disable network
support, for e.g. stand-alone machines.

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