Should i disable avahi daemon

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Removing the avahi-daemon on Ubuntu Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 3 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 38k times. I've seen that there's something called avahi-daemon running in the background: avahi 1 0 Jul20?

Is this something important? Can I remove it? If so, how? Improve this question. Mridang Agarwalla Mridang Agarwalla 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Thanks grawity for the great answer.

Would you happen to know how I could remove all avahi packages from mt system? Thanks — Mridang Agarwalla. What exactly starts this beast? How to disable it without apt-get remove or apt-get purge?

I wrote this one-liner to see if it goes funky on CPU util over a period of one minute, and it never does, but let me know if there are better ways to check that:. I found that even if I stop avahi-daemon and avahi-daemon. However, this works, and disables this annoying daemon permanently:. You might not need to stop it from starting up when PC boots, but maybe prevent it from respawn as it does, when you kill it.

Killing that process always failed, so couldn't get airmon-ng check to pass. Commenting out the respawning, it kills and never comes back hunting me. You need to mask the socket to prevent applications starting avahi-daemon :. I know the OP uses this line, but to summarize for who is searching for a simple command like myself. Than it should be off your system. Don't use systemd for disable best way is to remove or change the runscript to K instead of S in the run layers. Ubuntu Community Ask!

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How can I disable avahi-daemon? Ask Question. Asked 9 years ago. Active 1 year, 10 months ago. Viewed k times. How can I disable avahi-daemon and can you explain to me how it runs if it appears as a service but it itsn't in rcN. Optionally: I don't really know how to check properly what gets executed at system startup, thinking about it. I guess I will need to learn about Upstart but for now, all I need to learn is this: how do I disable services in Ubuntu?

Here is what I tried this should be the proper way to do it, or is it not? Improve this question. Robottinosino Robottinosino 1, 3 3 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. A for effort! Add a comment. Edit: Ok, I purged it, now I'll try the machine for a while. August 27th, 4. I strictly manage my network and actually prefer to manually configure static IPs, gateways, DNS and the resolv. If you want different systems to "automatically find" each other, then you need avahi.

I do not. I hate that. August 27th, 5. Join Date Dec Beans 6, In order to truly prevent a service from running you need to "mask" it: Code:. August 27th, 6. Originally Posted by Morbius1. August 27th, 7. Thanks for this information. I really don't know who thought that running this useless service by default is a good idea.