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  2. OpenRC - Wikipedia

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    By default, OpenRC uses a modified version of start-stop-daemon for daemon management. [10] Init scripts share similarities with scripts used in sysvinit, but offer several features to simplify their creation. Scripts are assumed to have start(), stop() and status(); and the system uses variables already declared to create the default functions ...

  3. OProfile - Wikipedia

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    $ opcontrol--start # If there are any issues in starting like --vm-linux just follow the instructions $ ./ ${example_file} $ opcontrol--dump $ opreport-l ${example_file} > ${output_file} $ opcontrol--stop # stops collecting the data $ opcontrol--shutdown # stops the demon $ opcontrol--reset # clears the profile data which was stored in the ...

  4. dpkg - Wikipedia

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    It also includes the programs such as update-alternatives and start-stop-daemon. The install-info program used to be included as well, but was later removed [7] as it is now developed and distributed separately. [8] The Debian package "dpkg-dev" includes the numerous build tools described below.

  5. Background process - Wikipedia

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    A daemon is a type of background process designed to run continually in the background, waiting for event(s) to occur or condition(s) to be met. [9] When launched with the daemon function, daemons are disassociated from their parent terminal.

  6. Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC.According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules, stating, "We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked ...

  7. List of Unix daemons - Wikipedia

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    Web server daemon. inetd [4] Listens for network connection requests. If a request is accepted, it can launch a background daemon to handle the request, was known as the super server for this reason. Some systems use the replacement command xinetd. lpd: The line printer daemon that manages printer spooling. nfsd [3]

  8. UnrealIRCd - Wikipedia

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    UnrealIRCd is an open-source IRC daemon, originally based on DreamForge, and is available for Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd c. May 1999, many new features have been added and modified, including advanced security features and bug fixes, and it has become a popular server.

  9. Windows service - Wikipedia

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    It is similar in concept to a Unix daemon. [1] A Windows service must conform to the interface rules and protocols of the Service Control Manager, the component responsible for managing Windows services. It is the Services and Controller app, services.exe, that launches all the services and manages their actions, such as start, end, etc. [2]