README.SBo (avahi) First, be sure you have an "avahi" user and group. Do this *before* you install the avahi package. We recommend uid/gid of 214, but adjust as needed for your system. Something like this should suffice: # groupadd -g 214 avahi # useradd -u 214 -g 214 -c "Avahi User" -d /dev/null -s /bin/false avahi Now start the Avahi daemon: # /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon start Optionally start the unicast DNS configuration daemon: # /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd start You will need to start avahi at boot by adding the following to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local and make them executable: # Start avahidaemon if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon start fi # Start avahidnsconfd if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd start fi You will also want to put the following into /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (if that file does not exist, create it and make it executable): # Stop avahidnsconfd if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd stop fi # Stop avahidaemon if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon stop fi