What is a daemon?
Which webservers support them? (Or webhosts?)
Do you know any good IRCdaemons?
What is a daemon?
Which webservers support them? (Or webhosts?)
Do you know any good IRCdaemons?
bitdamaged
Psychotic
Posts: 2053
From:100101010011 <-- right about here
Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-09-2002 05:52 PM
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Daemons are kinda a catch all name for "always on" maintenance processes that run in the background.
usually servers fall under this catagory. If you're familiar with *nix apps you'll see many processes named somethingd like httpd, crond, mysqld These are the server processes that monitor ports etc to look for incoming requests etc.
.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.
Petskull
Mad Scientist
Posts: 2032
From:127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Registered: Aug 2000 posted 10-10-2002 03:43 AM
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if each port is a different window on a building, imagine a daemon as the receptionist that jots down your information and processes your request to the appropriate people..
on most servers, port 80 houses the httpd[/b] daemon for the http service...it recieves your communique to that port and does what it's supposed to do- such as dish up some HTML or run a cgi script...
ftp is another daemon sitting on port 21 (mostly)...
