Re: The 'daemon' process
From: Alex Gorbachev <gist_at_cris.com>
Date: 1996/01/20
Message-ID: <4dpki0$d0o_at_spectator.cris.com>#1/1
Date: 1996/01/20
Message-ID: <4dpki0$d0o_at_spectator.cris.com>#1/1
A 'daemon' process is a generic name for a process which is not connected
to a terminal, and does useful work in a background. Examples are:
e-mail program, such as sendmail, printer spooler, such as lpd(lpr),
media monitoring.
You may be looking for a daemon that does some database work on your
system. To list all current processes issue 'ps -ef' at the UNIX prompt.
If you are logged in as a superuser, you can terminate a process by
issuing 'kill <PID>', where <PID> is a process ID displayed under PID in
ps -ef results.
Hope this helps.
Alex Gorbachev
Received on Sat Jan 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CET