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  1. What is the technical difference between a daemon, a service and a ...

    Apr 15, 2017 · A daemon is a background, non-interactive program. It is detached from the keyboard and display of any interactive user. The word daemon for denoting a background program is from the …

  2. What is the origin of "daemon" with regards to computing?

    The history also notes that Professor Saltzer, who also worked on Project MAC with Professor Corbato at the time "daemon" came into use for this purpose, confirms that this is the origin of daemon as it is …

  3. meaning - What is the difference between "daemon" and "demon" in a ...

    Aug 25, 2011 · The OED writes that daemon is simply an alternate spelling for demon. However, Wikipedia writes that the two are subtly different: The words daemon and daimon are Latinized …

  4. services - What is a Daemon? - Ask Ubuntu

    Feb 15, 2011 · In short, a Daemon is a background process. Daemons can just be normal programs that run in the background, however most are created by starting a process, forking it and exiting the …

  5. What is the difference betweem daemon-reload and reload?

    May 6, 2021 · daemon-reload - Load the unit configuration file of the running designated unit(s) to make unit file configuration changes without stopping the service. Note that this is different from the reload

  6. How to fix '* failed to start daemon error: cannot connect to daemon ...

    Mar 1, 2023 · How to fix '* failed to start daemon error: cannot connect to daemon' on Linux ubuntu Ask Question Asked 2 years, 9 months ago Modified 1 month ago

  7. 22.04 - Dependency failed for SSSD - Ask Ubuntu

    Jan 8, 2025 · Jan 07 19:27:30 ubuntu20 systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in System Security Services Daemon being skipped. Subject: A start job for unit sssd.service has finished successfully

  8. What's the difference between a Job and a Daemon? - Ask Ubuntu

    May 1, 2018 · A daemon is a process that runs detached from your session. So basically something you/we do not have direct control over. It waits for something to react upon (so when an event …

  9. session - What program starts dbus-daemon? - Ask Ubuntu

    What program starts the per user session dbus-daemon process in GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 (presumably via dbus-launch)? I would like to know because I would like to add a directory to the list …

  10. snap: edit docker configuration - Ask Ubuntu

    Dec 2, 2020 · To do so, I have to modify the daemon.json file, but unfortunatelly, it's on a filesystem that is mounted read-only; root@shinwey:/snap/docker/current/config# ls -ltr