Linux Shaman : What are Daemons?

Home
Credits
Affliates
Link Exchange

HTMLshaman
PHPshaman
LINUXshaman

Helpful Links
Web Design Images
Backgrounds
Icon Sets
GIF Images

Installation : What are Daemons?

In the *nix environment, we call the things that handle the system as Daemons. Simply every process is assigned with a daemon and that daemon will handle the transactions in the system.

For example the Apache Handler or the thing that makes it possible for you to stream webpages from your server is called the httpd (HTTP Daemon)

There are several other daemons in your system, like the sshd which handles your SSH logins.

From here it is important to know that sometimes you amy want to start up or shut down specific services on your system.

Below is an example on how to start, stop or restart your Apache Daemon.
To restart an already active daemon process.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
To stop an already active daemon process.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop
To start an already stopped daemon process.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start
On other occasions, you may have noticed that some of your processes do not start up when you reboot and it is very unconvient that you have to restart every process over and over again when you have to reboot your system.

Below is the command using mysql as an example on how to set the system to restart a specific Daemon automatically on reboot.
chkconfig –level 2345 mysql on

Installation
Getting Started
Additional Downloads
Apache Configuration
What are Daemons?

Shell Commands
Copy, Delete, Rename
Changing Permissions
Inbuilt Editor

Administration
Reading Logs
Restarting Daemons
Daemon Settings
SSH Security
Virus Detection
.htaccess Failure
Automated Tasks
Time Sync

Disclaimer:
Contents on this site is provided for educational purposes and will not be distributing source codes from any major commercial reference.
Partial code may be used to provide better understanding of how the program works or functions to illustrate to the reader more clearly.
Other programs that are provided freely on the internet may be placed as a quick solution to the user's needs taking in consideration that it is not altered in any way.

Our Recommended Links

Counter-Strike Servers

Advertise Here

phone card

Advertise Here

Hollywood Lyrics

Resident Evil

Car styling