4 Feb
2023
4 Feb
'23
11:02 a.m.
On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 03:10:26PM +1100, Alexis wrote:
Hi all,
Firstly, thanks to Warren for adding me to the list!
The 6th Edition manual refers to 'cron', not 'crond' (even though
cron was
indeed referred to as a 'daemon'). By 4.2BSD, however, we have things like
'telnetd' and 'tftpd'.
Does anyone have any pointers as to when and where the '-d' convention
started to be used?
The 2nd edition manual has:
dpd(I) spawn data-phone daemon
by the 5th edition, there was also:
lpd(VIII) line printer daemon
The term dates back to CTSS and Multics.