daemon, not deamon. It's a Unix process (running instance of a program) that
runs in the background to provide some system service. Common examples are
syslogd, crond, inetd, and lpd (read their man pages to see the specific
services they provide).
At 03:09 PM 7/20/99 -0400, Louis Dupree wrote:
>What is a deamon?
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