Saturday, March 13, 2010

Solaris: Daemons


Process Description:


init
The Unix program which spawns all other processes.

biod Works in cooperation with the remote nfsd to handle client NFS requests.

dhcpd
Dynamically configure TCP/IP information for clients.

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.

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