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06-23-2008

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Ive got output:

root 2 0 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [kthreadd]
root 3 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0]
root 4 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/0]
root 6 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:01 [events/0]
root 7 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [khelper]
root 49 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root 50 2 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid]

root 2359 1 0 Jun16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smartd -q never
root 2365 1 0 Jun16 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root 2366 1 0 Jun16 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root 2367 1 0 Jun16 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root 2368 1 0 Jun16 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root 2369 1 0 Jun16 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6

is all of them called daemons or just the ones that running from
/sbin/...
do we call them daemon just for the ones that runs for root or also for users?

Thanks.

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