IT lexicon Infra & Ops Daemon

Daemon

Infra & Ops På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

A process that runs in the background with no user interaction — Linux's equivalent of Windows services.

Classics: sshd (SSH), nginx, mysqld. Daemon names often end in "d". Mostly managed by systemd now. Stop the daemon, stop the service.

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