This is Solaris specific patch to place the "pid" and "socket" file/socket to /var/run Will not promote to community. --- a/configure.ac 2017-07-10 03:14:59.131370037 +0000 +++ b/configure.ac 2017-11-07 04:31:12.840517817 +0000 @@ -958,7 +969,7 @@ # # Avahi runtime dir # -avahi_runtime_dir="/run" +avahi_runtime_dir="/var/run" avahi_socket="${avahi_runtime_dir}/avahi-daemon/socket" AC_SUBST(avahi_runtime_dir) AC_SUBST(avahi_socket)