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myadam 11-02-2011 08:03 PM

I would like to know what is the role of "Daemon" in linux?
 
I would like to know what is the function of "Daemon" in linux.

frankbell 11-02-2011 08:18 PM

A daemon is a Linux/Unix term for what in Windows is called a process.

They run quietly in the background and do stuff behind the scenes.

Wikipedia has a nice article about them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)

chrism01 11-03-2011 12:51 AM

You may also see the word 'service' used eg in RHEL

service network start (or stop or restart)

John VV 11-03-2011 01:02 AM

sounds like a homework question
And i still think that these one line posts by 1 posters ( first post) is a bot

singhjc 11-03-2011 01:14 AM

when we start to work on linux many services run on system it called daemon,actually it is a process which works in background silently


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