Hi All, I have a relatively simple question about avahi.
Is it possible to launch avahi's daemon on an as-needed basis using a systemd socket.
Cups offers both cups.service and cups.socket however avahi only seems to offer the service.
Avahi chews up a fair amount of my system resources so it'd be nice if i could only launch it when I need to print.
#Launch Avahi with Systemd Socket
regal hare
clear plaza
ello, i am pretty sure this is possible
make a new file in /etc/systemd/system/avahi.socket
chatgpt's example file for this is:
[Unit]
Description=Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Socket
[Socket]
ListenStream=5353
ListenDatagram=5353
[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target
activate and start the socket:
sudo systemctl enable avahi.socket
sudo systemctl start avahi.socket
disable and stop the original service:
sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service
not it will be launched on-demand
hopefully this should work
regal hare
make a new file in /etc/systemd/system/avahi.socket
chatgpt's example file for ...
Thanks! I’ll give it a go