daemon is a background process. Somewhat similar to TSRs in Dos. Generally
a daemon is started when the m/c boots up and stopped when m/c is
shutdown. Many examples are sendmail(when run with option -bd), inetd
etc., For more details refer The design of Unix OS - Murice J Bach. Even
the Unix Primer chapter of Unix Network Programming has some details.
Bye,
Vinay
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Louis Dupree wrote:
> What is a deamon?
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