martin-ueding/thinkpad-scripts

Restart avahi-daemon

martin-ueding opened this issue · 3 comments

martin-ueding commented

I noticed that the .local addresses stop working when I switch the network interface with thinkpad-dock. I also have to restart avahi-daemon. On Ubuntu 14.04, this works via service avahi-daemon restart, but requires superuser privileges. Since thinkpad-dock currently is a user program, this would not work directly.

This is not really pressing, I just want to preserve this thought.

jturner314 commented

One possibility is to use a setuid executable, but I would be hesitant to do this -- unless done carefully, it would be a security risk.

martin-ueding commented

Maybe this is something that will improve with systemd, but setuid program is just asking for trouble, I think.

martin-ueding commented

Now I am on Fedora, there is no Avahi used by default. Also my FRITZ!Box router has some DNS, so I do not really need that any more.