From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 07:13:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425F316A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A2D43FD7 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from fwd08.aul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19t6Tu-00060S-03; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:13:34 +0200 Received: from techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (rCvIa6ZGwekDvkwdO78EeBT9vhEpiUK2IIaZYnq0EjzybYORs+xM6M@[217.82.93.197]) by fmrl08.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19t6Tj-2CSvpY0; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:13:23 +0200 Message-ID: <3F50B100.1020601@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:13:20 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vitali Malicky References: <1e2.f3352ba.2c81bfb8@aol.com> <005e01c36ef5$c9b17900$2401010a@zone3000.net> In-Reply-To: <005e01c36ef5$c9b17900$2401010a@zone3000.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: rCvIa6ZGwekDvkwdO78EeBT9vhEpiUK2IIaZYnq0EjzybYORs+xM6M@t-dialin.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newer names X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:13:39 -0000 Vitali Malicky wrote: > What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all > serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run > other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And many > my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as PROCESS. You've made me curious. Can you explain me the acronym DRAGON? Or did you just make that up? Hendrik