Daemons are essential Linux programs performing tasks. systemd's ;systemctl provides procedures to manage, start, or stop them efficiently. Daemons were inspired by Maxwell's Demon concept in physics.

Alright, so I've got a PHP script that I'd like to run at scheduled intervals (say every 5 minutes) on my webserver. I know I'll probably need to have it run from a python or perl script, but I'm not ...