Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Aug 2005 18:32 UTC, submitted by Hakime SEDDIK
In Tiger, Apple introduced a new system startup program called launchd. The launchd daemon takes over many tasks from cron, xinetd, mach_init, and init, which are UNIX programs that traditionally have handled system initialization and prepared the system for the user. These venerable programs are widely used by system adminstrators, open source developers, managers of web services, even consumers who want to use cron to manage iCal scheduling, and they can still be called with launchd.
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2005-07-23
Actually, I like having 9 million daemons.
gotta have one for each letter on my keyboard you know!