Why can't I shut down the avahi-daemon in Fedora Linux?

Question

I'm using Fedora 16.

I shut down NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant (using service commands), but when I try:

sudo service avahi-daemon stop

or

sudo kill pid

it appears again instantly! How can I figure which process is still using avahi?

nhinkle · Answer 1 · 2011-11-04 20:39:50Z

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The command

systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service

should work.

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answered Nov 4 '11 at 20:32

I tried that but it didn't work the only way was to disable it and restart – cap10ibraim Nov 4 '11 at 20:34

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@Niels could you edit your answer to include a bit more info about how your solution works? – nhinkle♦ Nov 4 '11 at 20:40

what gives the command systemctl status avahi-daemon.service ? – Niels Nov 5 '11 at 10:08

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phw · Answer 2 · 2012-01-26 20:33:25Z

OP posted this also in the Fedora Forums here.

The solution is to disable the service altogether:

systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service

That worked for me.

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