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).

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Recursion is:

a. the ability of a program to repeat a block of code b. the ability of a method to call itself c. the ability of a method to call smaller methods d. the ability of a method to implement factorials

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Answer the following questions true (T) or false (F)

1. Inheritance refers to a very specialized form of a class. 2. A derived class is a class defined by adding instance variables and methods to an existing class.

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Coding and testing are 2 phases of the software life cycle.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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