From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 14:33:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A376537B406 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7TLWrL00304 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:32:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA16023 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:32:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 11942 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Aug 2001 21:32:28 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:32:28 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: "'freebsd@masspostroad.net'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Message-ID: <20010829233227.A11923@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Hilgeman , "'freebsd@masspostroad.net'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" References: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3EE6B@mailsvr.ecx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3EE6B@mailsvr.ecx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:22:57PM -0700, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > Theory #1139: > A demon is thought to be a supernatural being that has limited power, but > its power cannot be used unless it is invoked. Likewise, a daemon sits in > the background and HAS power, but it doesn't use it unless it is called or > invoked. > > - Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew P. Marino [mailto:freebsd@masspostroad.net] > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:08 AM > To: Iridium Ronin > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: > > > daemon/demon, it's a trivial word play. Now why they called them daemon is > another issue. I'm sure there's a very deep logical reason that any computer > scientist PHD would understand. From the FreeBSD Handbook: We call these programs daemons. Daemons were characters in Greek mythology; neither good or evil, they were little attendant spirits that, by and large, did useful things for mankind. Much like the web servers and mail servers of today do useful things. This is why the BSD mascot has, for a long time, been the cheerful looking daemon with sneakers and a pitchfork. (Hint: Read the documentation. There is a lot of useful and/or interesting stuff there.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message