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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [b]http[/b] 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... [b]ftp[/b] is another daemon sitting on port 21 (mostly)... ... you get what I'm trying to say? --------------------------- Relevant links: [url=http://www.enderunix.org/docs/eng/daemon.php]Unix Daemon Server Programming[/url] [url=http://webreference.com/perl/tutorial/9/]Unix Daemons in Perl[/url] [url=http://www.editorsdesktop.com/ftpinfo.html]An FTP Tutorial[/url] --------------------------- Relevant threads: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001126.html]Daemons What are they?[/url] ___________________________ [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=NoJive]NoJive [/url] on Thu 10-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=NoJive]NoJive [/url] on Thu 10-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Petskull]Petskull [/url] on Thu 10-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Thu 10-Oct-2002)[/i][/small] Loading...
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