Tiger reports - avahi-daemon problems

[oygle]

Tiger runs automatically every day. I'm seeing these messages


# Checking listening processes
OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `avahi-daemon' is listening on socket 50224 (UDP on every interface) is run by avahi.
NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `avahi-daemon' is listening on socket 37175 (UDP on every interface) is run by avahi.


Does anything need changing ? I use Firestarter, possibly something there that needs changing ?

Oygle

[cdenley]

Avahi is installed by default.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)

You can safely disable it if you don't expect its features to be available.
System>Administration>Services
It isn't really a security concern, though. Firestarter is no longer supported or maintained, so I would suggest you use something else, like gufw.

[oygle]

You can safely disable it if you don't expect its features to be available.
System>Administration>Services
It isn't really a security concern, though.


Okay, thanks, I wouldn't know if it is used or not, so will leave it there, just to play it safe.


Firestarter is no longer supported or maintained, so I would suggest you use something else, like gufw.

Firestarter gives me problems sometimes, it blocks access 'out', even though it is setup okay in iptables, and as I see gufw does have a gui, I will use that instead.

Thanks,

Oygle

[cariboo907]

Make sure you use:

sudo apt-get purge firestarter

To completely get rid of firestarter and it's configuration files.

[oygle]

Okay, thanks, I will do that. :)

There are other packages I have 'removed' but there are still files left over, so that's a handy command to know, to clean up completely.

Thanks,

Oygle