List of Unix daemons
This is a list of Uni !fingerd |Provides a network interface for the finger protocol, as used by the finger command. |- !ftpd |Services FTP requests from a remote system. It listens at the port specified in the services file for ftp. |- !httpd |Web server daemon. |- !inetd |Listens for network connection requests. If a request is accepted, it can launch a background daemon to handle the request. Some systems use the replacement command xinetd. |- !lpd |The line printer daemon that manages printer spooling. |- !nfsd |Processes NFS operation requests from client systems. Historically each nfsd daemon handled one request at a time, so it was normal to start multiple copies. |- !ntpd |Network Time Protocol daemon that manages clock synchronization across the network. xntpd implements the version 3 standard of NTP. |- !rpcbind |Handles conversion of remote procedure calls (RPC), such as from ypbind. |- !sshd |Listens for secure shell requests from clients. |- !sendmail |SMTP daemon. |- !swapper |Copies process regions to swap space in order to reclaim physical pages of memory for the kernel. Also called sched. |- !syslogd |System logger process that collects various system messages. |- !syncd |Periodically keeps the file systems synchronized with system memory. |- !xfsd |Serve X11 fonts to remote clients. |- !vhand |Releases pages of memory for use by other processes. Also known as the "page stealing daemon" |- !ypbind |Find the server for an NIS domain and store the information in a file. |}