Daemon (computer software)

In Unix, and in  other computer multitasking operating systems, a daemon ( or ) is a computer program that runs as a background task. Many daemons have names that end with the letter "d": for example, syslogd, the daemon that handles the system log, httpd, a daemon that handles web requests, or sshd, which takes care of incoming SSH connections.

Related pages
 Server (computing)

References

Other websites
 start-stop-daemon man page  (Debian package)
 Tutorial: Unix Daemons in Perl 
 How to daemonize in Linux 
 Unix Daemon Server Programming 
 http daemon in Bash

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