GConf and Daemons

ajaygarg · 07-05-2012, 07:28 AM

Hi all.

I am wanting to patch "avahi", to read in some customized values at startup. I am thinking of doing it via GConf.

However, I believe that GConf is user-session specific.

So, how should I go about setting up GConf for Avahi?

Doing "ps -aux | grep avahi" gives me ::

Code:

[ajay@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/ajay

[ajay@localhost ~]$ ps -aux | grep avahi
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.8/FAQ
avahi     1154  0.0  0.0   3256   792 ?        S    14:39   0:00 avahi-daemon: running [linux.local]
avahi     1155  0.0  0.0   3124     4 ?        S    14:39   0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper
ajay     16057  0.0  0.0   4420   716 pts/1    S+   17:56   0:00 grep --color=auto avahi

Surprisingly, the avahi daemons are running in the context of "avahi" user. However, there is no (known to me) avahi login on my system.

I might be sounding very stupid.
However, I will be grateful for a reply that may clear my misunderstandings.

Looking forward to a reply.

Thanks and Regards,
Ajay

ajaygarg · 07-05-2012, 08:19 AM

For brevity, I am listing the contents of "/etc/group" ::

Code:

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
video:x:39:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
lock:x:54:
audio:x:63:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
usbmuxd:x:113:
utmp:x:22:
utempter:x:35:
avahi-autoipd:x:170:
dbus:x:81:
rtkit:x:172:
jackuser:x:499:
abrt:x:498:
tcpdump:x:72:
slocate:x:21:
desktop_admin_r:x:497:
desktop_user_r:x:496:
cdrom:x:11:
tape:x:33:
dialout:x:18:
floppy:x:19:
avahi:x:70:
haldaemon:x:68:
openvpn:x:495:
saslauth:x:494:
ntp:x:38:
apache:x:48:
nm-openconnect:x:493:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
sshd:x:74:
smolt:x:492:
pulse:x:491:
pulse-access:x:490:
gdm:x:42:
ajay:x:500:
hsqldb:x:96:

There does seem to be a "avahi" group though.