[avahi] Automatically do something, when a service has been published?

[Michael Schmarck]

Hello.

Using Avahi, can I setup the systems so, that they 
automatically do something, as soon as a service
is available?

More specific:
I'd like to start a NFS client (ie. portmap and also
autofs) on a notebook only, if there's one (or more)
NFS server available.

On the servers, I've added the following nfs.service
file:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
  <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
  <service>    <type>_nfs._tcp</type>    <port>2049</port>  </service>
  <service>    <type>_nfs._udp</type>    <port>2049</port>  </service>
</service-group>

When I now do a "avahi-browse -a", I see (amongst
other things):

--($ /etc/avahi)-- avahi-browse -a
[...]
+ eth0 IPv4 HD                                            Network File System  local
+ eth0 IPv4 HD                                            _nfs._udp            local
[...]

(The hostname is “HD”.)

I could of course setup a cron job which runs every
minute (or whatever period) and which calls “avahi-browse
-t _nfs._tcp” and then does something. But I don't
think that this is, uhm, “elegant” :)

Can I somehow setup my systems (client and/or server)
in such a way, that the client does “something” (eg.
start NFS stuff, in my case) as soon as a service
is available? I think the key here is “as soon as”.

-- 
Thanks a lot,
Michael

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