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- From: rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Someone in Sun Prod mgmt please read
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.173242.22650@puma.ATL.GE.COM>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:32:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug8.000308.20539@moe.einstein.com> <1992Aug10.144046.18197@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Aug11.235441.1646@pacdata.uucp>
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- In article <1992Aug11.235441.1646@pacdata.uucp> jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins) writes:
- >And we simply must quit using those tools of the devil, demons. True Story.
- >When I was first setting up the Sun network here last year my boss called
- >me into his office. Seems he'd gotten a complaint from a co-worker about
- >me always talking about spawning demons. I was never told who complained
- >but I've got a damn good idea, and I deal with this cowardly ignoramous
- >as little as possible. Maybe I should lodge a complaint about the bible
- >scriptures on her calendar, turnabouts fair play.
-
- daemons. Not the same thing as demons.
-
- The phrase daemon is not a Sunism, nor for that matter is it a UNIXism. The
- term apparently goes back to the early sixties when they were working on
- CTSS, and they appeared in Multics and then UNIX.
-
- The word Daemon is a much older form of demon, and it has no bias towards
- either good nor evil. The Greeks had a concept of a "personal daemon,"
- similar to the current concept of a "guardian angel."
-
- Tell you coworker to go look up daemon in a reasonably good dictionary. :-)
-
- (Today's lesson comes from the "UNIX System Administration Handbook," by
- Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Scott Seebass)
-
- Bob
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