Unix geek humor

[bigmacbear]

Seeing all those people posting about their Inner Daemon reminds me of the technical term daemon used in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. A daemon is a process that under ordinary circumstances does not die when a user logs off the system.

That said, it occurred to me that certain personality traits might make one want to compare oneself to one of the more common Unix daemons. Then I realized that a vanishingly small percentage of LJers would get it, so it wasn't worth me spending a couple hours making up a web form and putting it up for the purposes of making yet another meme.

So without further ado, I present...

init	Master of the universe; HWMBO. If you go down the whole system goes down with you.
cron	Punctual to a fault, you keep the social calendar for everyone else.
inetd/tcpd	You determine who gets to talk to you and who has to talk to the hand.
httpd	You put out... a display for the whole world to see.
sshd	You hold the keys to the kingdom.
bootpd/dhcpd	You help the kids pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
nfsd/smbd	You file things away and pull them out when needed.
routed/gated	You never have to ask for directions, you give them.
sendmail	You've got mail!
lpd/lpsched	You like to have things on paper.

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[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

Best. Entry. Ever.