Accepted update-notifier 0.50 (source)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Dec 13 00:16:36 GMT 2006


On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:20:12PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Changes: 
>  update-notifier (0.50) feisty; urgency=low
>  .
>    * Add check for /var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local, which
>      indicates that Avahi was disabled due to an already existing unicast
>      .local domain. This is invalid and breaks that domain, thus Avahi gets
>      disabled in that case. Inform the user about it, as per
>      https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZeroConfNetworking.

There seems to be an increasing need for non-root processes to notify the
user of events.  Have you considered creating a new directory for this
purpose where notification files can be left by unprivileged processes?

-- 
 - mdz



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