ofonod(8)

💖 ofonod(8) — bestie edition 💖

okay so real quick, this is ofonod(8), a page from the System Manager's Manual, and it's about a daemon. yes, a daemon. not the spooky kind. the unix kind. slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

ofonod — the oFono mobile telephony daemon 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ofonod [options]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so ofonod is a daemon, and what it does is provide an oFono stack for interfacing with mobile telephony devices. literally its whole thing. it's giving "phone whisperer". 📱✨

the way you actually talk to it is through D-Bus. that's the whole control panel, no cap. for example, you can tell ofonod to send AT commands over /dev/rfcomm0 by calling the D-Bus method org.ofono.at.Manager.Create. yes that's a real method name, i didn't make it up, i would never.

and permissions? /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ofono.conf is the file that manages the D-Bus permissions for oFono. it's the bouncer at the club. 🎀

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --debug, -d — turns on debug information output. 💀 now here's the tea: you can pass multiple arguments to -d, and they can be separated by colons, commas, or spaces (whatever vibe you're feeling). those arguments are relative source code filenames for which you want debugging output enabled. and output shell-style globs are accepted too, e.g. "plugins/*:src/main.c". yes bestie, you can be fancy with it.
• --nodetach, -n — don't run as a daemon in the background. that's it. that's the option. it just stays right there with you, in the foreground, staring at you. iconic honestly. 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

dbus-send(1)

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🌈 FILES 🌈

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/ofono.conf

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

this man page was written by Andres Salomon <dilinger@collabora.co.uk>. thank you for your service, king. 🫡

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💖 and that's the whole page! this one's from Jul 2009, and it's the ofonod(8) page, so if you ever forget what year it's from or what section of the manual you're in — boom, right there. go forth and interface with telephony devices, bestie. periodt. 💅✨🎀