What is a daemon?
A daemon is a program which runs in the background.
Daemon processes often provide network services, such as email and file serving.
Many Unix daemons have names which end in a 'd', such as "httpd", "bind" and "ftpd".
The opposite of a daemon is a program which runs in the foreground.
A Unix daemon is similar to a "service" under Microsoft Windows.
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