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daemon Definition

dae·mon (mən)

noun

  1. Gr. Myth. any of the secondary divinities ranking between the gods and men
  2. a guardian spirit; inspiring or inner spirit
  3. 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·monic (di mänik) 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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