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OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 10-09-2002 15:06

What is a daemon?
Which webservers support them? (Or webhosts?)
Do you know any good IRCdaemons?

/OlssonE

bitdamaged
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 100101010011 <-- right about here
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 10-09-2002 17:52

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.

A google serach for IRC daemons found this http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircd/



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Petskull
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: 127 Halcyon Road, Marenia, Atlantis
Insane since: Aug 2000

posted posted 10-10-2002 03:43

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 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)...

... you get what I'm trying to say?


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[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 10-10-2002).]

NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 10-10-2002 11:15

Added to FAQ. http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=25&sortby=ratingNoJive

OlssonE
Maniac (V) Inmate

From:  Eagleshieldsbay, Sweden
Insane since: Nov 2001

posted posted 10-10-2002 16:39

Ok... I get it!
Thanks for the help!

lallous
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Lebanon
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 10-11-2002 10:44

Daemon aka TSR in dos and services in NT...

programs that run in the background to performe a specific task.

IRC server: ConferenceRoom @ http://www.webmaster.com/main.htm

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