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Old 03-07-2002
johnsonmj johnsonmj is offline
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A second explanation, not as detailed
For simple unix programmers like me, a daemon is just a process that runs in the background, usually waiting for something to happen that it is capable of working with, like a printer daemon is waiting for print commands.