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This is a list of daemons that are commonly found on a Unix-like operating system. A common convention is to name a daemon with a d suffix.
| Name
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Description
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| init[1]
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The program which spawns all other processes. As of 2016, for major Linux distributions, it has been replaced by systemd.[2]
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| biod[3]
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Works in cooperation with the remote nfsd to handle client NFS requests.
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| crond[1]
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Time-based job scheduler, runs jobs in the background.
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| dhcpd
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Dynamically configure TCP/IP information for clients.
|
| fingerd
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Provides a network interface for the finger protocol, as used by the finger command.
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| ftpd[1]
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Services FTP requests from a remote system.
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| httpd
|
Web server daemon.
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| inetd[4]
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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.
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| nfsd[3]
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Processes NFS operation requests from client systems. Historically each nfsd daemon handled one request at a time, so it was normal to start multiple copies.
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| ntpd
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Network Time Protocol daemon that manages clock synchronization across the network. xntpd implements the version 3 standard of NTP.
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| portmap/rpcbind
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Provides information to allow ONC RPC clients to contact ONC RPC servers
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| sshd
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Listens for Secure Shell requests from clients.
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| sendmail
|
SMTP daemon.
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| swapper
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Copies process regions to swap space in order to reclaim physical pages of memory for the kernel. Also called sched.
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| syslogd
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System logger process that collects various system messages.
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| syncd
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Periodically keeps the file systems synchronized with system memory.
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| systemd
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Replacement of init, the Unix program which spawns all other processes.
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| xfsd
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Serve X11 fonts to remote clients.
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| vhand
|
Releases pages of memory for use by other processes. Also known as the "page stealing daemon"
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| ypbind
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Find the server for an NIS domain and store the information in a file.
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