> Louis Dupree wrote:
> >
> > What is a deamon?
>
> Short Answer:
> A child process whose parent has died. That is the way I heard it.
I do not agree with this, you could have daemons with legal parents alive
:-)
Usually daemons are adopted by init when their parents die but i can't
see why i would be a rule.
> Not all deamons though are servers, (a decent amount though). Example
> there is all the syslogd, (system log deamon) the program or
> deamon that
> logs a good chunck of your system.
I do not agree again, sorry.
syslogd is a daemon like the others. It is a server, and it provides
logging facility to other processes and computers accross the network.
> Jack
Otherwise your answer was very-well explained and i think the guy will
have understood the idea.
pascal
