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- From: jshaffer@mail.csrlink.net (Jim Shaffer, Jr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: of Demons and Daemons
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 13:30:39
- Organization: ->POEE<-, Carlos Allende cabal
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- In article <4k99tb$ll9@news.aloha.com> lo@kokee.hawaiian.net (Lopaka) writes:
- > Hello, anyone have a few moments to explain these two net
- > terms? They aren't in the books that I have.
-
- Demon and daemon are more or less synonymous, and also more or less synonymous
- with server program. For example, the SMTP daemon is the process you're
- talking to when you're talking to the SMTP port on your ISP to send mail, and
- likewise with POP, NNTP, FTP, etc.
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- Also, a daemon can refer to any background process that provides a service,
- even if it doesn't serve data *to* the client. For example, multi-user
- systems such as Unix have a printer daemon that's in charge of the printer
- queue.
-
- Basically it's a process that lurks around until someone invokes it, hence
- the name.
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