.TH PHONED 8 "March 26 1999" "DECnet utilities"

.SH NAME
phoned \- DECnet phone server daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B phoned
[options]
.br
Options:
.br
[\-dvVh] [\-u user]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B phoned
is a daemon that serves phone clients. It must be running for any users
to the phone command.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I "\-u"
Specifies the username that
.B phoned
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.
.br
NOTE that phoned must be started as root to allow it to bind to the phone
DECnet object.
.I "\-d"
Don't fork and run the background. Use this for debugging.
.TP
.I "\-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.
.TP
.I \-h \-?
Displays help for using the command.
.TP
.I \-V
Show the version of phoned.


.SH SEE ALSO
.BR phone "(1)"