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A networking program that performs a housekeeping or maintenance utility function without being called by the user. A daemon sits in the background and is activated only when needed.For example, the update daemon wakes up every thirty seconds or so to flush the buffer cache, and the sendmail daemon awakes whenever someone sends mail. As another example, the HTTP daemon (httpd) answers HTTP requests.The Linux operating system uses a large number of daemons.Generally pronounced DEE-muhn.