what is daemon? NFS & NIs – Daemons?

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what is daemon? NFS & NIs – Daemons?..

Answer / bala krishna

NFS daemons:
nfsd
statd
mountd
lockd
nfslogd

NIS Master server daemons
ypserv
ypbind
ypxfrd
rpc.yppasswd
rcp.ypupdated

NIS slave server dameons
ypserv
ypbind

NIS client server dameons
ypbind

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what is daemon? NFS & NIs – Daemons?..

Answer / reddy

dameon is the generic term for a background process under
unix.typically deamons ends with letter d.
nfs dameons:nfsd
statd
lockd
mountd
nfslogd
nfs4cbd
mfsmapd
nis dameons:
ypserv
ypbind
ypupdate
yppasswd.

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what is daemon? NFS & NIs – Daemons?..

Answer / guest

A daemon is a process used to perform specific functionality
which runs in background for an application. They are
different for different processes. e.g. ssh, httpd, nfs etc.
NFS is Network File System used for sharing files through
network.
NIS is Network Information Server used to share application
remotely from another host. It is used for centralization of
systems. e.g. DNS etc.

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what is daemon? NFS & NIs – Daemons?..

Answer / bala krishna

small corrrection to the above answer

NFS daemons:
nfsd statd
mountd lockd
statd
lockd
nfslogd

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