Sushanth Amin

• Jan 22nd, 2006

 

A 'daemon' is a software process that runs in the background (continuously) and provides the service to client upon request

 'server process' run runs one time, when called by a daemon. Once done it will stop. For example telnetd (in.telnetd) or ftpd called from xinetd/inetd daemon

sankar_4site

 Profile Answers by sankar_4site 

• May 25th, 2006

 

A 'daemon' is a software process that runs in the background (continuously) and provides the service to client upon request. For example named is a daemon. When requested it will provide DNS service. Other examples are:

• xinetd (it is a super-daemon, it is responsible for invoking other Internet servers when they are needed)
• inetd (same as xinetd, but with limited configuration options)
• sendmail/postfix (to send/route email)
• Apache/httpd (web server)

 'server process' run runs one time, when called by a daemon. Once done it will stop. For example telnetd (in.telnetd) or ftpd called from xinetd/inetd daemon . By calling server process from daemon you can save the load and memory. Use a server process for small services such as ftpd, telnetd

Mohammed Mujahid

• Feb 2nd, 2007

 

Process:Process is nothing but the job which get executed at CPU.Deamon:Can say its background process (or) This is the process which is started since system is started and it will not be shutdown unless the system is shutdown or kill by any command.

madhu

• Apr 27th, 2016

 

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Ram Vuppala

• Feb 21st, 2018

 

Process:Process is nothing but the job which get executed at CPU. Where as daemon can say its background process (or) This is the process which is started since system is started and it will not be shutdown unless the system is shutdown or kill by any command.