Daemons
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| − | daemons -- the name comes from the old Greek, meaning something close to "helpful spirit" -- are programs that run in the background, doing helpful little things like running a background process. Programs that are run as daemons will (usually) have a "d" appended to their name, e.g., [[sshd]], [[named]], etc. | + | daemons -- the name comes from the old Greek, meaning something close to "helpful spirit" -- are programs that run in the background, doing helpful little things like running a background process. Programs that are run as daemons will (usually) have a "d" appended to their name, e.g., [[sshd]], [[named]], etc. In windows these are known as [[services]] or [[background processes]] -- you may also see them referred to this way in unix contexts. |
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Revision as of 13:37, 22 September 2005
daemons -- the name comes from the old Greek, meaning something close to "helpful spirit" -- are programs that run in the background, doing helpful little things like running a background process. Programs that are run as daemons will (usually) have a "d" appended to their name, e.g., sshd, named, etc. In windows these are known as services or background processes -- you may also see them referred to this way in unix contexts.
