daemon

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D0004600 (dē′mən)n.1. Chiefly British Variant of demon.2. Variant of daimon.3. Computers A program or process that runs in the background but remains inactive until invoked.

[Sense 3, after Maxwell's demon (from the creature's constant monitoring of gas molecules going in and out of an aperture ).]

dae·mon′ic (-mŏn′ĭk) adj.

daemon

(ˈdiːmən) or

daimon

n1. (Classical Myth & Legend) a demigod2. the guardian spirit of a place or person3. a variant spelling of demon³ daemonic adj

dai•mon

(ˈdaɪ moʊn) also daemon,
n., pl. -mo•nes (-məˌniz) -mons. a divinity or a manifestation of divine power in ancient Greek belief. [< Latin daemōn a spirit < Greek daímōn a deity]dai•mon′ic (-ˈmɒn ɪk) adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	daemon - an evil supernatural being daimon, demon, devil, fiendevil spirit - a spirit tending to cause harmincubus - a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping womensuccuba, succubus - a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping mendibbuk, dybbuk - (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior
	2.	daemon - a person who is part mortal and part goddemigoddeity, divinity, god, immortal - any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a forceAdonis - (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite"

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[′dē·mən] (computer science) In Unix, a program that runs in the background, such as a server.

daemon

(operating system)/day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythologicalmeaning, later rationalised as the acronym "Disk And ExecutionMONitor") A program that is not invoked explicitly, but liesdormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea isthat the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that adaemon is lurking (though often a program will commit anaction only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke adaemon).

For example, under ITS writing a file on the LPT spooler'sdirectory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would thenprint the file. The advantage is that programs wanting filesprinted need neither compete for access to, nor understand anyidiosyncrasies of, the LPT. They simply enter theirimplicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do withthem. Daemons are usually spawned automatically by thesystem, and may either live forever or be regenerated atintervals.

Unix systems run many daemons, chiefly to handle requestsfor services from other hosts on a network. Most of theseare now started as required by a single real daemon, inetd,rather than running continuously. Examples are cron (localtimed command execution), rshd (remote command execution),rlogind and telnetd (remote login), ftpd, nfsd (filetransfer), lpd (printing).

Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem tohave distinct connotations (see demon). The term "daemon"was introduced to computing by CTSS people (who pronouncedit /dee'mon/) and used it to refer to what ITS called adragon.

daemon

Pronounced "dee-mun" as in the word for devil, as well as "day-mun," a daemon is a Unix/Linux program that executes in the background ready to perform an operation when required. Functioning like an extension to the operating system, a daemon is usually an unattended process that is initiated at startup. Typical daemons are print spoolers and email handlers or a scheduler that starts up another process at a designated time. The term comes from Greek mythology, meaning "guardian spirit." See agent and mailer-daemon.

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DAEMON➣Disk And Execution Monitor

DAEMON➣Data Adaptive Evaluator and Monitor

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noun an evil supernatural being

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noun a person who is part mortal and part god

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