Daemons are processes that are run when the system is initialized and continue to run while the system is in operation. Their purpose is to wait in the background until their services are required.
The most common daemon is the cron daemon. Here are more examples: rpc.mountd, nfsd, mountd & biod (NFS daemons), lpd (line printer daemon), rlogind, telnetd (telnet server daemon), routed (network routing daemon), rwhod (remote who daemon).
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