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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

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236 points wizerno | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 00:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jasoneckert ◴[20 Oct 24 12:27 UTC] No.41894902[source]▶
The *nix world is full of dark-but-fun terminology. Daemons run the system. New files get 666 (before the umask takes away unnecessary permissions). Parents kill their children before killing themselves. And sometimes you have to kill zombies.
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vhodges ◴[20 Oct 24 13:36 UTC] No.41895286[source]▶
From: https://devrant.com/rants/1101391/my-daily-unix-command-list...

unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep.

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1. oefrha ◴[20 Oct 24 17:02 UTC] No.41896793[source]▶
Except you shouldn’t fsck while mounted.
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2. toast0 ◴[20 Oct 24 22:16 UTC] No.41898944[source]▶
Works fine in FreeBSD/ufs :p