What is a daemon?

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What is a daemon? ..

Answer / uday kumar_anem

Daemons are system related background processes that has
root permissions and services the requests from other
processes.

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What is a daemon? ..

Answer / surya

In UNIX, a program that runs in the background (not attached
to a terminal) is called a "daemon." It's something you
can't see, but it's alive.

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What is a daemon? ..

Answer / basheer

The deamons are background processes and starts
autometically without user interface or user interaction.
demons are auto start it means if user stop the deamon it
will appears in next reboot.[ or we can say can not be
stopped, they starts automatically]

In windows there is no deamons only services[ means they are
combined with services] where as in Unix for every service
there is a deamon.

we can identify deamons ===>

run #ps-ef|more
[ it will list all the the running processes]

"?" indicates deamons.

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What is a daemon? ..

Answer / rajanvr

orphan child status is called daemon

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What is a daemon? ..

Answer / chandan kuamr gahan

Daemon is the background process of unix.It is the same as
the service process of unix.

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What is a daemon? ..

Answer / sachin kumar bebarta

daemon is nothing but server program.they are not associated with terminal and always run in the background .

eg: httpd ,sendmail

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