Normally , daemons have names that end with the letter `` d '' : for example , syslogd , the daemon that handles the system log , httpd , a daemon that handles web requests or sshd , which takes care of incoming SSH connections . Typically daemons have names that end with the letter `` d '' : for example , syslogd , the daemon that handles the system log , or sshd , which handles incoming SSH connections .