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daemon -- Definition A daemon is a program that runs continually on your computer. It waits quietly for some condition to occur; then it awakens and performs some action (such as redirecting the file to a printer). For example, the daemon /etc/cron wakes up every minute and checks every cron file. If a file contains a command to be executed at this time, then cron executes it. As a general rule, anything that does not interact directly with users can be classified as a daemon. Daemons do not generally generate output to a user's terminal. Any time you have a resource, like a printer or data base, to which access should be controlled, you can use a daemon. For a list of daemons available under the COHERENT system, see the Lexicon entry for Administering COHERENT. See Also Using COHERENT Notes The function bedaemon(), which is included in libmisc, makes a program a daemon. See the article on libmisc for details. A daemon may be killed accidentally, or through an error condition. When that occurs, a user may summon the daemon from the misty deep, but it will not come. The superuser root can reinvoke a daemon like any other program.