From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 11:33:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14070 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA14062 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa29906; 1 Sep 97 14:33 EDT Received: from archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (root@archive.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.9]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15507; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 14:33:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21804; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 14:33:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA06007; Mon, 1 Sep 97 14:33:23 EDT Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 14:33:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Marco Molteni Cc: Cliff Addy , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satanic logo In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > > >From chapter 31 of the "Unix System Administration Handbook" by > Nemeth (a very good book) : > > The words "daemon" and "demon" both come from the same root, but > "daemon" is an older form and its meaning is somewhat different. A > daemon is an attendant spirit that influences one's character or > personality. Daemons aren't minions of good or evil; they are > creatures od independent thought and will. As a rule, UNIX systems > seem to be infested with both daemons and demons. Yes, "daemon" is from Ancient Greek, and had no connotation of evil. As mentioned above it is a minor spirit of sorts. The Greek means "shining one". Interestnigly enough another cognate word is "diamond", a shining thing. If only some of these complainers had enough spare brain-cycles to stop and reflect for a minute of two, this wouldn't be such a big issue. I say ignore them, unless they won't go away. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/