Apr 15, 2017 · A service doesn't have to be a daemon, but usually is. A user application with a GUI could have a service built into it: for instance, a file-sharing application. Another example is the X Window service, which is anything but in the background: it takes over your screen, keyboard and pointing device.

Traditionally, the process names of a daemon end with the letter d, for clarification that the process is, in fact, a daemon, and for differentiation between a daemon and a normal computer program. For example, syslogd is the daemon that implements the system logging facility, and sshd is a daemon that serves incoming SSH connections.

May 2, 2025 · If you want systemd to reload the configuration file of a unit, use the daemon-reload command. In other words: for the example case of Apache, this will reload Apache's httpd.conf in the web server, not the apache.service systemd unit file. This command should not be confused with the daemon-reload command. restart PATTERN...

I have a small client-server code. In the server part, there was a command daemon(1,1) that ran it as a daemon. The executable was just a.out. How can I kill this process? The usual ps does not show this process, but I know this is running because I cannot use the IP-port pair anymore.

But when I do sudo grep -iR 'accounts-daemon' /etc/* it returns nothing, so obviously there is nothing in /etc/init or /etc/init.d or /etc/rc*.d directories that starts that daemon, hence the question, where is it ? My main goal is to disable autostart of the accounts services daemon on boot.

Jul 11, 2012 · /usr/sbin/named is provided by the bind9 package. bind9 is a DNS server. If this is a VPS, it's quite possible you need that package.

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a ps -efww ef shows 2 processes active, both called avahi-daemon, and the PPID of the first avahi-daemon is indeed 1, the second process is just a child of the first. The PPID = 1 is what makes me think this was auto-started.

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The udisks daemon serves as an interface to system block devices, implemented via D-Bus. It handles operations such as querying, mounting, unmounting, formatting, or detaching storage devices such as hard disks or USB thumb drives.