From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jun 25 23:15:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from azazel.zer0.org (azazel.zer0.org [209.133.53.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A8D37B8F6 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by azazel.zer0.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id XAA83105; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:15:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:15:25 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Salvo Cc: err@intergrafix.net, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: the word demon Message-ID: <20000625231525.F79299@azazel.zer0.org> References: <20000619.120200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <71377.961383726@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <71377.961383726@localhost>; from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 08:02:06PM -0700 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2000-06-18 20:02 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > What is the defference between the word demon and the word devil? > > There is only one devil whereas there can be many demons. > > Not that either is a relevant question to FreeBSD in any case since we > use a DAEMON. Notice the difference in spelling. It's a greek word > which means "helpful spirit or worker." I suppose the closest english(?) > word would be "genie." If you want to know about _BSD_ Daemons, I'd suggest reading http://www.daemonnews.org/199810/daemon.html for a summary. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "I think not," said Descartes... mailto:gsutter@zer0.org and promptly disappeared. http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message