daemon

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So clearly: a daemon is a powerful thing, and can be bend to do a lot of different tasks.

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  1. noun Chiefly British Variant of demon.
  2. noun Variant of daimon.
  3. noun Computer Science A program or process that sits idly in the background until it is invoked to perform its task.

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  • Action: Run \ "srvctl status\" to check if a daemon is already running on the local node. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a commandline scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. —  Hack In The Box
  • So clearly: a daemon is a powerful thing, and can be bend to do a lot of different tasks. —  doggdot.us
  • But the name of the daemon is very important because it is also used in filenames (like the logfile). —  doggdot.us
  • The telnet daemon will be available until you reboot your Linkstation. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
 

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