daemon Definition
dae·mon (dē′mən)
noun
- Gr. Myth. any of the secondary divinities ranking between the gods and men
- a guardian spirit; inspiring or inner spirit
- demon (sense )
Etymology: L, a spirit (in LL(Ec), evil spirit, demon) < Gr daimōn, divine power, fate, god, in LGr(Ec), evil spirit < IE base *dā(i)-, to part, divide, tear apart > time, tatter
daemon Related Forms
dae·mon′ic (di män′ik) adjective
daemon Telecom Definition
From the Greek daimon, meaning divine power. A utility that resides in RAM, waiting in the background until an event triggers it to take action. Print spoolers, e-mail handlers, and automatic backup utilities are examples of daemons. In mythology, a daemon was variously a guardian spirit or secondary divinity in the form of a demigod, i.e., half-man and half-god, that was tasked with duties deemed too insignificant for the gods' attention. See also RAM and utility.
daemon Usage Examples
Converse of object
- restart: Another useful thing to do with make is to restart a daemon.
- rout: Private routers or routing daemons that offer service to the college network are not permitted.
- spool: The spooling daemon uses the appropriate filters to print the data accordingly.
- log: In addition, the sniffer chooses a random protocol and sends the packet to the logging daemon.
- install: Then you have to go fetch and install an ARP daemon.
- start: Step 7: Start the daemon proper, and enable it to start automatically at startup.
Preposition: on
machine: The X Display Manager The X Display Manager runs as a daemon on a host machine and manages multiple X displays.
Adjective modifier
- lpd: The local port is 515, or the standard print server port, usually owned by the lpd daemon.
- smbd: As a consequence in order for this to succeed the smbd daemon must be running on the local machine.
- inetd: Find the PID number of the inetd daemon by using ' ps ' .
- pppd: Testing the PPP interface - kill the pppd daemon a few times.
Modifies a noun
- thread: Without this you see only some of the results from the creation of the daemon threads.
- mode: Do you want to leave sendmail running in daemon mode?
- program: User Agent always exists in the client host as a daemon program.
Noun used with modifier
- syslog: It would be good to look at using a more advanced syslog daemon.
- sendmail: This is normally commented out since most hosts default to loading a sendmail daemon.
- telnet: In particular, do not run a telnet daemon; use the secure shell daemon instead.
- mailer: How many mailer daemons do you think will be spinning out there?
- ssh: The boot process should proceed and take you to a login prompt, or at least a state where an ssh daemon is visible.
- ftp: You do not need to run a telnet or ftp server daemon in order to connect to somebody else's telnet or ftp server.
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