man phoned (Administration système) - DECnet phone server daemon

NAME

phoned - DECnet phone server daemon

phoned [options]

Options:

[-dvVh] [-u user]

phoned is a daemon that serves phone clients. It must be running for any users to the phone command.

-u: Specifies the username that runs as. By default this is "nobody". If this user does not exist then phoned will run as root which could be a security hole.

NOTE that phoned must be started as root to allow it to bind to the phone DECnet object. -d Don't fork and run the background. Use this for debugging.
-v: Verbose. The more of these there are the more verbose phoned will be. Don't use more than one for normal operation because it will seriously impair performance.
-h -?: Displays help for using the command.
-V: Show the version of phoned.