Daemons
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In computing terms a “daemon” is not evil – in practice they are very helpful. “Daemon” is a Unix term: in Windows equivalent processes would be called “Windows Services”.
These are background [[Processes | processes][ which do helpful services and are not responsible to any user or user process. A nice (Unix) example is cron – which is a job scheduler which you can use to run other processes at regular intervals (such as making a file backup in the early morning, each day).
If you have access to a Unix terminal, run the top
utility. It will
reveal several daemons lurking in the machine, typically owned by
root
. It is conventional to end a daemon’s name with
‘d’, which makes them easier to identify.
You can find more details in the usual places.