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 DBUS interface which provides a rich object
- oriented interface to DBUS enabled applications.</p>
+ 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
<option>
<p><opt>-D | --daemonize</opt></p>
- <optdesc><p>Daemonize after startup. Implies <opt>--syslog</opt></p></optdesc>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <optdesc><p>Increase verbosity to debug level.</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>--no-proctitle</opt></p>
+ <p><opt>--no-proc-title</opt></p>
<optdesc><p>Don't change the process name while
- running. Unless this option is specified avahi will reflect
- it's current state and selected host name in the process
+ running. Unless this option is specified avahi-daemon will reflect
+ it's current state and the selected host name in the process
title.</p></optdesc>
</option>
</section>
<section name="Signals">
- <p><arg>SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT</arg>: avahi-daemon will shutdown. This is issued by passing --kill to avahi-daemon.</p>
+ <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>.</p>
+ 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
+ <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-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">