In LINUX/UNIX jargon, what is a daemon? Give examples of five daemons.

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A daemon is a system process running in the background. LINUX daemons are used to provide various services. Some of the famous daemons are lpd (for providing printing services), syslogd (for keeping track of user logon activities), inetd (the daemon that offers various internet services), crond (the cron daemon is used to perform various tasks at different times of the day), and fingerd (the daemon that offers the finger service).