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What is a Deamon ??
A deamon, in a multiprogrammed environement  is a process running in the background and not under the direct supervision of the user.

They are usually initialised , by the init process ( pid =1 ) . They are usually forked , by the parent process and are dropped by the parent process , causing init to take over the process . They are not attached to any terminals ,ie standard input devices.
They are , used for handling tasks , such as auditing kernel messages and handling network requests.

Examples:
1) auditd -> which facilitates , the kernel auditing facilities.
2) initd -> Which is the initialisation demon.
3) avahi deamon -> Which is the deamon , for handling network requests (DHCP).


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Mirroring MySQL database

As I was learning Data Mining , where we study the importance of commercial data , and mirroring as a backup measure , I thought of "googling" for a simple application , which could mirror my database onto another host on the network . The below given example , can transfer a complete database to another , within any host. My next post shall help mirroring data to another network host.

The code is in PHP:

$adminc=@mysql_connect("localhost","admin","pesit123") OR die('Couldn\'t connect to MySql:'.mysql_error());


$result = mysql_list_tables ("admin");

while ($table_row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {

$table = $table_row[0];
$qry="drop table if exists adminmirror".$table;
mysql_query($qry)or die("Failed to delete:".mysql_error());

$query= "create table adminmirror.".$table." LIKE admin.".$table;
mysql_query($query)or die("Table create failed:".mysql_error());
$query="Insert INTO adminmirror.".$table." SELECT * FROM admin.".$table;
mysql_query($query)or die("Table copy failed:".mysql_error());
echo "$table copy done...";
}
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Please incorporate the required changes in the database names , so as to mirror the database.

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