Service

Services are provided by a wide variety of server software. Like the name suggest, a server software provide one or more services to requesting clients. The services provided can range from information delivery to execution of a program to control a robot, local or remote.

Among the more common services provided by Linux powered computers are:
 * Web pages - Apache
 * Mail delivery - Sendmail, qmail
 * File Transfer (ftp) - vsFTPd
 * Cache proxy - Squid
 * Database - MySQL, PostgreSQL

A service differs from a daemon by the fact that a daemon has been disowned to be parented under the init process.

= See also =
 * process
 * daemon