10 Useful Interview Questions on Linux Services and Daemons | Linux Today

10 Useful Interview Questions on Linux Services and Daemons

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Ravi Saive
Mar 10, 2014

Daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process and generally do not remains under the direct control of user. The parent process of a daemon in most cases are init, but not always. Here in this series of Interview Article, we would be covering Services and Daemons in Linux.

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Ravi Saive

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