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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users The DT messaging system could not be started Post 302269111 by fpmurphy on Tuesday 16th of December 2008 11:44:35 PM
Old 12-17-2008
This message is to do with CDE and it's underlying messaging system i.e ToolTalk. If you are unfamilar with ToolTalk, conceptually it is similar to DBUS on Fedora/Redhat/CentOS. It was developed by Sun.

Generally caused by CDE not being able to write files in a user's home directory. Often caused when a user's directory is NFS mounted. Lots of information and good advise available if you search the Web.
 

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dtenvvar(file formats)													    dtenvvar(file formats)

NAME
dtenvvar -- CDE environment variables DESCRIPTION
The CDE desktop sets up and uses a number of environment variables to find certain files and do certain things. Components tied into CDE then use these environment variables to locate specific types of files. Environment variables used within the CDE desktop are: CEPATH Used by ToolTalk when in Classing Engine mode, where the Classing Engine where to find the databases. Refer to ttsession(1) and tt_type_comp(1) for more information. COLUMNS Set by the terminal emulator. Refer to dtterm(1) for more information. DISPLAY Is set to the associated display name. Refer to dtlogin(1) and ttsession(1) for more information. DTAPPSEARCHPATH Used to search for Application Manager applications. Refer to dtappgather(1) and dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTDATABASESEARCHPATH Used to collect filetype and action definitions, as expressed in *.dt files. Refer to dtsearchpath(1), dtaction(1), dtaction- file(4), and dtdtsfile(4) for more information. DTHELPSEARCHPATH System specified variable used to locate desktop help files. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) and dthelpgen(1) for more information. DTHELPUSERSEARCHPATH User specified variable used to locate desktop help files. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) and dthelpgen(1) for more information. DTINFOLIBSEARCHPATH Used by dtinfo to locate information libraries on local and remote mounted systems. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) and dtinfogen(1) for more information. DTINFOLIBDEFAULT Used by dtinfo to identify the default information library(s) to load if the -l or -sect option is not specified. Multiple infor- mation libraries can be specified by a comma separated list. By default, DTINFOLIBDEFAULT is initialized to the CDE infolib cde. DTMOUNTPOINT Used to set the name of the file system's mount point, such as '/nfs' or '/net'. Refer to dtspcd(1m) and dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTPRINTCWD If set to an existing, usable directory, this setting causes dtlp(1) to execute the lp command pipeline from that directory. By default, this setting uses the current directory from which dtlp(1) is invoked. Refer to dtlp(1) for more information. DTPRINTFILEREMOVE Remove the file after printing it. This functionality is intended for temporary files generated by components such as the Text Editor and Help system files that don't need to persist beyond the act of printing. Value must be True or False (case is ignored). Default is False. Refer to dtlp(1) for more information. DTPRINTSILENT Print the file silently, without posting the PRINT dialog. Value must be True or False (case is ignored). Default is False. Refer to dtlp(1) for more information. DTPRINTUSERFILENAME Use this value as the name of file as it should appear in the PRINT dialog. Default is print_file. Refer to dtlp(1) for more information. DTSCREENSAVERLIST Used to set the default desktop screen saver action list. Used by dtstyle(1) to determine the list of available screen savers. Refer to dtstyle(1) for more information. DTSPSYSAPPHOSTS Used by system administrators as an input to dtsearchpath(1) to create the DTAPPSEARCHPATH environment variable. It is the pri- mary environment variable and drives the remaining search paths for filetypes and actions, for desktop icons, and for help files. Refer to dtappgather(1) and dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSPSYSDATABASEHOSTS Used by system administrators as an input to dtsearchpath to create the DTDATABASESEARCHPATH environment variable. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSPSYSHELP Used by system administrators as an input to dtsearchpath to create the DTHELPSEARCHPATH environment variable. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSPSYSICON Used by system administrators as an input to dtsearchpath to create the XMICONSEARCHPATH and XMICONBMSEARCHPATH environment varables. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSPUSERAPPHOSTS Used by end users as an input to dtsearchpath to create the DTAPPSEARCHPATH environment variable. Refer to dtappgather(1) and dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSPUSERDATABASEHOSTS Used by end users as an input to dtsearchpath to create the DTDATABASESEARCHPATH environment variable. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSPUSERHELP Used by end users as an input to dtsearchpath(1) to create the DTHELPSEARCHPATH environment variable. Refer to dtsearchpath for more information. DTSPUSERICON Used by end users as an input to dtsearchpath(1) to create the XMICONSEARCHPATH and XMICONBMSEARCHPATH environment variables. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. DTSROCFPATH Used by the DtSearchInit function to locate the default API configuration ocf file. If the ocf_file argument is NULL, DtSear- chInit looks for an ocf file with a base name of either dtsearch.ocf or austext.ocf in the directory specified by DTSROCFPATH, in the current working directory, or in the HOME directory, in that order. DTTAGOPT Used by dthelptag(1). Refer to dthelptag(1) for more information. DTUSERSESSION Used to control the location of the end user's subdirectory where the Application Manager will be rooted. Also used by the Help system to store data on a per user-session-display basis. Refer to dtappgather(1) or dthelpview(1) for more information. EDITOR Is set to /usr/dt/bin/dtpad Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. HOME Is set to the home directory of the user. Refer to dtlogin(1) and dtmail(1) for more information. KBD_LANG Is set to the value of LANG for applicable languages. Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. LANG Is set to the current NLS language (if any). Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. LC_ALL Is set to the current NLS language (if any). Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. LC_MESSAGES Is set to the current NLS language (if any). Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. LINES Set by the terminal emulator. Refer to dtterm(1) for more information. LOGNAME Is set to the user name. Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. LPDEST Set the printer destination for the file. Refer to dtlp(1) for more information. MAIL Is set to /usr/mail/$USER (system dependent). Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. MAILRC Used by dtmail(1) as the mailer's startup file. Refer to dtmail(1) for more information. MANPATH The dtsearchpath(1) utility appends /usr/dt/man to it. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. Refer to dtterm(1) for more information. PATH Is set to the value of the userPath resource. Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. SHELL Is set to the user's default shell (from /etc/passwd). Refer to dtlogin(1) and dtterm(1) for more information. TERM Is set to dtterm the default CDE terminal emulator. Refer to dtterm(1) and dtlogin(1) for more information. TERMINAL_EMULATOR Set by the terminal emulator. Refer to dtterm(1)) for more information. TTPATH Used by ToolTalk. It tells ToolTalk where to find the ToolTalk types database when in XDR mode. Refer to ttsession(1) for more information. TTSESSION_CMD This specifies the shell command to be used by all ToolTalk clients for auto-starting ttsession. Refer to ttsession(1) for more information. TT_ARG_TRACE_WIDTH Used by ToolTalk. It specifies the number of bytes of argument and context values to write when in trace mode. Refer to ttses- sion(1) for more information. TT_FILE Set by ttsession when it invokes a tool to recieve a message. Refer to ttsession(1) for more information. TT_SESSION The ttsession utility uses this varible to communicate its session ID to the tools that it starts. Refer to ttsession(1) for more information. TT_TOKEN Used to inform the ToolTalk client library that it has been invoked by ttsession. Refer to ttsession(1) for more information. TT_TRACE_SCRIPT If set, tells libtt to turn on client-side tracing as specified in the trace script Refer to tttrace(1) for more information. TZ Is set to the value of the timeZone resource or system default. Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. USER Is set to the user name. Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. WINDOWID Set by the terminal emulator. Refer to dtterm(1) for more information. XAPPLRESDIR Specifies the name of a directory that contains application specific resources. Refer to dtterm(1) and dtwm(1) for more informa- tion. XAUTHORITY May be set to an authority file. Refer to dtlogin(1) for more information. XENVIRONMENT Specifies the name of a resource file with user- or machine specific resources. Refer to dtterm(1) and dtwm(1) for more informa- tion. XFILESEARCHPATH Defines a language-dependent location of app-defaults. Refer to dtterm(1) and dtwm(1) for more information. XMICONSEARCHPATH Used to locate desktop icons. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. XMICONBMSEARCHPATH Used to locate bitmap (2 color) desktop icons. Refer to dtsearchpath(1) for more information. XMODIFIER Specifies which input method to use. Refer to dtterm(1) for more information. SEE ALSO
dtaction(1), dtactionfile(4), dtappgather(1), dtappintegrate(1), dtcm(1), dthelpgen(1), dthelptag(1), dthelpview(1), dtlogin(1), dtlp(1), dtsearchpath(1), dtspcd(1m), dtstyle(1), dtterm(1), dtdtsfile(4), dtwm(1), tt_type_comp(1), ttsession(1), tttrace(1). dtenvvar(file formats)
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