Difference between revisions of "Avahi"

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Download Source:	http://avahi.org/download/avahi-0.6.25.tar.gz

Introduction to Avahi

According to Avahi's site: Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in Apple MacOS X (branded Rendezvous, Bonjour and sometimes Zeroconf) and is very convenient. Avahi is mainly based on Lennart Poettering's flexmdns mDNS implementation for Linux which has been discontinued in favour of Avahi.

Project Homepage: http://www.avahi.org/

Dependencies

See http://www.avahi.org/wiki/DownloadAvahi#Requirements for more information.

Required

Optional

Doxygen
GDBM or Berkeley DB
Gtk2
libcap
Libglade
Mono and Monodoc
Gtk-Sharp (Required if building Mono bindings)
Pkg-config
PyGTK and D-BUS Python
Pyrex and Python (Built with GDBM)
PyTwisted
Qt3
Qt4

Avahi Users/Groups

The avahi user is running the Avahi daemon:

groupadd -g 20 avahi &&
useradd -c "Avahi Daemon User" -d /dev/null \
        -u 20 -g avahi -s /bin/false avahi

The avahi-autoipd user/group is for running the avahi-autoipd daemon:

groupadd -g 21 avahi-autoipd &&
useradd -c "Avahi AutoIP Daemon User" -d /dev/null \
        -u 21 -g avahi-autoipd -s /bin/false avahi-autoipd

The netdev group is a priviliged access group for Avahi clients:

groupadd -g 22 netdev

Configure Options

If you do not have any of following packages installed pass the appropriate options to configure:

--disable-glib
--disable-qt3
--disable-qt4
--disable-gtk
--disable-dbus
--disable-expat
--disable-mono --disable-monodoc

If you want to enable the HOWL compat layer:

--enable-compat-howl

If you want to enable to libdns_sd compat layer:

--enable-compat-libdns_sd

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var --with-distro=none &&
make

Install the package

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" USE_ARCH=32 \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var --with-distro=none &&
make

Install the package

make install

N32

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
    --with-distro=none &&
make

Install the package

make install

64Bit

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
    --with-distro=none &&
make

Install the package

make install

Installed Directories:	/usr/include/avahi-ui, /etc/avahi, /usr/include/avahi-compat-howl, /usr/include/avahi-compat-libdns_sd, /usr/share/avahi, /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/avahi, /usr/include/avahi-client, /usr/include/avahi-qt3, /usr/include/avahi-core, /usr/include/avahi-glib, usr/include/avahi-common
Installed Programs:	bssh, avahi-autoipd, avahi-bookmarks, avahi-discover, avahi-browse, avahi-resolve, avahi-publish, avahi-set-host-name, avahi-dnsconfd, avahi-daemon, avahi-discover-standalone
Installed Libraries:	libavahi-ui.{a,la,so}, libhowl.{a,la,so}, libdns_sd.{a,la,so}, libavahi-client.{a,la,so}, libavahi-qt3.{a,la,so}, libavahi-core.{a,la,so}, libavahi-glib.{a,la,so}, libavahi-common.{a,la,so}

Configuring

Bootscript

There currently isn't a pre-written bootscript for avahi-autoipd and avahi-dnsconfd.

avahi-daemon - The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon.
avahi-autoipd - IPv4LL network address configuration daemon. For use in an ad-hoc network where there is a lack of a DHCP server.
avahi-dnsconfd - Unicast DNS server from mDNS/DNS-SD configuration daemon. Connects to a running avahi-daemon and runs the script /etc/avahi/dnsconfd.action for each unicast DNS server that is announced on the local LAN.

@@ Line 15: / Line 15: @@
 === Required ===
 * [[Expat]]
+* [[Intltool]]
 * [[libdaemon]]
 * [[Perl Module XML::Parser]]
 === Recommended ===
+* [[D-BUS]]
 * [[D-BUS Glib]]
 * [[Glib2]]
 === Optional ===
+* [[Doxygen]]
+* [[GDBM]] or [[Berkeley DB]]
 * [[Gtk2]]
+* [[libcap]]
 * [[Libglade]]
+* [[Mono]] and [[Monodoc]]
+* [[Gtk-Sharp]] (Required if building [[Mono]] bindings)
+* [[Pkg-config]]
+* [[PyGTK]] and [[D-BUS Python]]
+* [[Pyrex]] and [[Python]] (Built with [[GDBM]])
+* [[PyTwisted]]
 * [[Qt3]]
 * [[Qt4]]
-* [[PyGTK]] and [[D-BUS Python]]
-* [[PyTwisted]]
-* [[Mono]] and [[Monodoc]]
-* [[libcap]]
-* [[Pyrex]] and [[Python]] (Built with [[GDBM]])
-* [[GDBM]] or [[Berkeley DB]]
 == Avahi Users/Groups ==
@@ Line 145: / Line 151: @@
 === Bootscript ===
-{{Note|This script is currently in development. It may not work correctly.}}
+There currently isn't a pre-written bootscript for avahi-autoipd and avahi-dnsconfd.
-Create the bootscript:
- cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi-daemon << "EOF"
- #!/bin/bash
- # Begin $rc_base/init.d/avahi-daemon
- . /etc/sysconfig/rc
- . ${rc_functions}
- AVAHI_BIN=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon
- LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/avahi-daemon
- start() {
- 	boot_mesg "Starting Avahi daemon..."
- 	if [ -s /etc/localtime ]; then
- 	    cp -fp /etc/localtime /etc/avahi/etc >/dev/null 2>&1
- 	fi;
-        $AVAHI_BIN -D
- 	RETVAL=$?
-  	if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]; then
- 		touch $LOCKFILE
- 		echo_ok "$base startup"
- 	else
- 		echo_failure "$base startup"
- 	fi
-  	return $RETVAL
- }
- stop() {
-        boot_mesg "Shutting down Avahi daemon... "
-        $AVAHI_BIN -k
-  	RETVAL=$?
-  	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo_ok "$base shutdown" || echo_failure "$base shutdown"
-  	rm -f $LOCKFILE
-  	return $RETVAL
- }
- reload() {
-        boot_mesg "Reloading Avahi daemon... "
-        $AVAHI_BIN -r
-  	RETVAL=$?
-  	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo_ok "$base reload" || echo_failure "$base reload"
- 	return $RETVAL
- }
- restart() {
- 	stop
- 	start
- }
- RETVAL=0
- case "$1" in
-   start)
- 	start
- 	;;
-   stop)
- 	stop
- 	;;
-   status)
-        $AVAHI_BIN -c
-     	RETVAL=$?
-     	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo $"Avahi daemon is running" || echo $"Avahi daemon is not running"
- 	;;
-   restart)
- 	restart
- 	;;
-   reload)
-        reload
- 	;;
-   condrestart)
-   	if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
- 		restart
- 	fi
- 	;;
-   *)
- 	echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}"
- 	exit 2
-         ;;
- esac
- exit $RETVAL
- # End $rc_base/init.d/avahi-daemon
- EOF
- chmod -v 754 /etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi-daemon
- for link in /etc/rc.d/rc{{0,1,6}.d/K20,{2,3,4,5}.d/S21}avahi-daemon; do
-   ln -sfv ../init.d/avahi-daemon $link;
- done
-There currently isn't a pre-written bootscript for avahi-autoipd and avahi-dnsconfd. Help to write it.
 * '''avahi-daemon''' -  The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon.
 * '''avahi-autoipd''' - IPv4LL network address configuration daemon. For use in an ad-hoc network where there is a lack of a DHCP server.
 * '''avahi-dnsconfd''' - Unicast DNS server from mDNS/DNS-SD configuration daemon. Connects to a running avahi-daemon and runs the script /etc/avahi/dnsconfd.action for each unicast DNS server that is announced on the local LAN.
+[[Category:Network Utilities]]

Difference between revisions of "Avahi"

Latest revision as of 04:01, 10 January 2010

Contents

Introduction to Avahi

Dependencies

Required

Recommended

Optional

Avahi Users/Groups

Configure Options

Non-Multilib

Multilib

32Bit

N32

64Bit

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