In this video lecture, we take a quick look at processes intended to run continuously and in the background: daemon processes. We'll also brush upon system start scripts and daemon/service conventions.

Slides for this lecture: https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/10-daemons.pdf
Course website: https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/

Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Daemon characteristics
05:21 Daemon conventions
07:49 Daemon example: syslog