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computer on your network. Another (and probably safer at home) way to do it, is to set up masquarading.

syslogd - manages system activity logging. The configuration file is /etc/syslog.conf .

smtpd - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, designed for the exchange of electronic mail messages. Several daemons that support SMTP are available, including sendmail, smtpd, rsmtpd, qmail, zmail, etc.

usb - daemon for devices on Universal Serial Bus.

xfs - X font server.

xntpd - finds the server for a NIS domain and stores the information about it in a binding file.

ypbind - NIS binder. Needed if computer is part of Network Information Service domain.

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