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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[e8e3312d] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[bf325a39] | 7 | <!ENTITY dbus-download-http "http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-&dbus-version;.tar.gz">
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[30d0aef] | 8 | <!ENTITY dbus-download-ftp " ">
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[2fdcd9df] | 9 | <!ENTITY dbus-md5sum "79eca2f2c1894ac347acce128314428b">
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[b6a2a0e] | 10 | <!ENTITY dbus-size "1.8 MB">
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[adfdc8b] | 11 | <!ENTITY dbus-buildsize "100 MB">
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[b6a2a0e] | 12 | <!ENTITY dbus-time "0.5 SBU">
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[e8e3312d] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="dbus" xreflabel="D-BUS-&dbus-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="dbus.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>D-BUS-&dbus-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="dbus">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-D-BUS">D-BUS</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to D-BUS</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para><application>D-BUS</application> is a message bus system, a simple
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| 33 | way for applications to talk to one another.
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| 34 | <application>D-BUS</application> supplies both a system daemon (for events
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| 35 | such as <quote>new hardware device added</quote> or <quote>printer queue
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| 36 | changed</quote>) and a per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs
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| 37 | among user applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a
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| 38 | general one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two
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| 39 | applications to communicate directly (without going through the message bus
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| 40 | daemon).</para>
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| 41 |
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[4c77a949] | 42 | &lfs71_checked;
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[482477c] | 43 |
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[e8e3312d] | 44 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 45 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&dbus-download-http;"/></para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&dbus-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &dbus-md5sum;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Download size: &dbus-size;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &dbus-buildsize;</para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | <listitem>
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| 62 | <para>Estimated build time: &dbus-time;</para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | </itemizedlist>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">D-BUS Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 67 |
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[bf325a39] | 68 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[b6a2a0e] | 69 | <para role="required">
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| 70 | <xref linkend="expat"/> (preferred) or
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| 71 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>
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| 72 | </para>
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[bf325a39] | 73 |
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[adfdc8b] | 74 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 75 | <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
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| 76 | (for <command>dbus-launch</command> program)</para>
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| 77 |
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[e8e3312d] | 78 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[b6a2a0e] | 79 | <para role="optional">
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[d6341da] | 80 | <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/> (to run tests),
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| 81 | <xref linkend="python2"/> (to run tests) and
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[b6a2a0e] | 82 | <xref linkend="doxygen"/> (to generate the API documentation)
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| 83 | </para>
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[6e13117a] | 84 |
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| 85 | <para>Note that the <command>configure</command> script will look for
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[6129b81] | 86 | <xref linkend="xmlto"/> but it does nothing as the XML/HTML documentation is
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| 87 | already shipped in the source tree.</para>
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[c45cb57] | 88 |
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[1039de3] | 89 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 90 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/dbus"/></para>
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| 91 |
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[e8e3312d] | 92 | </sect2>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <sect2 role="kernel" id='dbus-kernel'>
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| 95 | <title>Kernel Configuration</title>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <para>Ensure the following option is enabled in the kernel configuration
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| 98 | and recompile the kernel if necessary:</para>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <screen><literal>General Setup
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| 101 | System V IPC</literal></screen>
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-kernel">
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| 104 | <primary sortas="d-dbus">dbus</primary>
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| 105 | </indexterm>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | </sect2>
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| 108 |
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| 109 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 110 | <title>Installation of D-BUS</title>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <para>As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, create a
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| 113 | system user and group to handle the system message bus activity:</para>
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| 114 |
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[b6a2a0e] | 115 | <screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 18 messagebus &&
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[2fdcd9df] | 116 | useradd -c "D-BUS Message Daemon User" -d /var/run/dbus \
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[b6a2a0e] | 117 | -u 18 -g messagebus -s /bin/false messagebus</userinput></screen>
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[cda0a69] | 118 |
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[e8e3312d] | 119 | <para>Install <application>D-BUS</application> by running the following
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| 120 | commands (you may wish to review the output from
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| 121 | <command>./configure --help</command> first and add any desired parameters
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| 122 | to the <command>configure</command> command shown below):</para>
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| 123 |
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[2fdcd9df] | 124 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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[b6a2a0e] | 125 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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[9c98f0e] | 126 | --libexecdir=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0 \
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[bf325a39] | 127 | --localstatedir=/var &&
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[e8e3312d] | 128 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 129 |
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[b6a2a0e] | 130 | <para>See below for test instructions.</para>
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[c45cb57] | 131 |
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[6e13117a] | 132 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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| 133 | user:</para>
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[e8e3312d] | 134 |
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| 135 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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[b6a2a0e] | 136 | mv -v /usr/share/doc/dbus /usr/share/doc/dbus-&dbus-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <para>The dbus tests cannot be run until after <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>
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| 139 | has been installed. The tests require passing additional parameters to
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| 140 | <command>configure</command> and exposing additional functionality in the
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| 141 | binaries. These interfaces are not intended to be used in a production
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| 142 | build of <application>D-BUS</application>. If you would like to run the
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| 143 | unit tests, issue the following commands:</para>
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| 144 |
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| 145 | <screen><userinput>make distclean &&
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| 146 | ./configure --enable-tests --enable-asserts &&
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| 147 | make &&
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| 148 | make check &&
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| 149 | make distclean</userinput></screen>
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[c45cb57] | 150 |
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[b6a2a0e] | 151 | <para>Note there has been a report that the tests may fail if running
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[d6341da] | 152 | inside a Midnight Commander shell.
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| 153 | You may get out-of-memory error messages when running the tests.
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| 154 | These are normal and can be safely ignored.</para>
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[e8e3312d] | 155 |
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| 156 | </sect2>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 159 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 160 |
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[2fdcd9df] | 161 | <para><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib/dbus-1.0</parameter>: This will
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[6e13117a] | 162 | install binaries meant to be only used internally by
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| 163 | <application>D-BUS</application>, and the directory
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| 164 | <filename class="directory">dbus-1</filename> into
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[da167e4] | 165 | <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/dbus-1.0</filename> instead of
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| 166 | into <filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename>.</para>
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| 167 |
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[e8e3312d] | 168 | <para><parameter>--localstatedir=/var</parameter>: This parameter causes
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[bf325a39] | 169 | the daemon PID file, system bus socket and machine uuid file to be
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| 170 | created in the <filename class="directory">/var</filename> directory
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| 171 | instead of the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
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| 172 | directory.</para>
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[aa5632c] | 173 |
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[30d0aef] | 174 | <para><parameter>--enable-tests</parameter>: Build extra parts of the code
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| 175 | to support testing. Configure will end with a NOTE warning about this.</para>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <para><parameter>--enable-asserts</parameter>: Enable debugging code to run
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| 178 | assertions for statements normally assumed to be true. This prevents a
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| 179 | warning that '<parameter>--enable-tests</parameter>' on its own is only useful
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| 180 | for profiling and might not give true results for all tests, but adds its own
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| 181 | NOTE that this should not be used in a production build.
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| 182 | </para>
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| 183 |
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[2fdcd9df] | 184 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 185 | href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
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[30d0aef] | 186 |
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[e8e3312d] | 187 | </sect2>
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| 188 |
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| 189 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 190 | <title>Configuring dbus</title>
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <sect3 id="dbus-config">
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| 193 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 194 | <para><filename>/etc/dbus-1/session.conf</filename>,
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| 195 | <filename>/etc/dbus-1/system.conf</filename> and
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[c45cb57] | 196 | <filename>/etc/dbus-1/system.d/*</filename></para>
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[e8e3312d] | 197 |
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| 198 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-config">
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| 199 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dbus-1-session.conf">/etc/dbus-1/session.conf</primary>
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| 200 | </indexterm>
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| 201 |
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| 202 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-config">
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| 203 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dbus-1/system.conf">/etc/dbus-1/system.conf</primary>
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| 204 | </indexterm>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-config">
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[c45cb57] | 207 | <primary sortas="e-etc-dbus-1-system.d-star">/etc/dbus-1/system.d/*</primary>
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[e8e3312d] | 208 | </indexterm>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | </sect3>
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| 211 |
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[e9efab0b] | 212 | <sect3 id="dbus-session-config" xreflabel="D-Bus custom services directory">
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| 213 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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[e8e3312d] | 214 |
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| 215 | <para>The configuration files listed above should probably not be
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| 216 | modified. If changes are required, you should create
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| 217 | <filename>/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf</filename> and/or
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[bccbdaea] | 218 | <filename>/etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf</filename> and make any
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[e8e3312d] | 219 | desired changes to these files.</para>
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| 220 |
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[57aa7a28] | 221 | <para>If any packages install a
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| 222 | <application>D-Bus</application> <filename>.service</filename>
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| 223 | file outside of the standard <filename
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| 224 | class="directory">/usr/share/dbus-1/services</filename> directory,
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| 225 | that directory should be added to the local session configuration.
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| 226 | For instance, <filename
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| 227 | class="directory">/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services</filename> can
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| 228 | be added by performing the following commands as the
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| 229 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 230 |
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| 231 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cat > /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf << "EOF"
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| 232 | <literal><!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
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| 233 | "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
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| 234 | "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
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| 235 | <busconfig>
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| 236 |
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| 237 | <!-- Search for .service files in /usr/local -->
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| 238 | <servicedir>/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
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| 239 |
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| 240 | </busconfig></literal>
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| 241 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 242 |
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[e8e3312d] | 243 | </sect3>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <sect3 id="dbus-init">
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| 246 | <title>Boot Script</title>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <para>To automatically start <command>dbus-daemon</command> when the
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| 249 | system is rebooted, install the
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| 250 | <filename>/etc/rc.d/init.d/dbus</filename> bootscript from the
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[5254d12] | 251 | <xref linkend="bootscripts"/> package.</para>
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[e8e3312d] | 252 |
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| 253 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-init">
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| 254 | <primary sortas="f-dbus">dbus</primary>
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| 255 | </indexterm>
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| 256 |
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| 257 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install-dbus</userinput></screen>
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| 258 |
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[3565e02] | 259 | <para>Note that this boot script only starts the system-wide
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| 260 | <application>D-BUS</application> daemon. Each user requiring access to
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| 261 | <application>D-BUS</application> services will also need to run a
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| 262 | session daemon as well. There are many methods you can use to start a
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| 263 | session daemon using the <command>dbus-launch</command> command. Review
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| 264 | the <command>dbus-launch</command> man page for details about the
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| 265 | available parameters and options. Here are some suggestions and
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| 266 | examples:</para>
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| 267 |
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| 268 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 269 | <listitem>
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| 270 | <para>Add <command>dbus-launch</command> to the line in the
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| 271 | <filename>~/.xinitrc</filename> file that starts your graphical
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[0e15d3a] | 272 | desktop environment<!-- as shown in <xref linkend="gnome-config"/>-->.</para>
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[3565e02] | 273 | </listitem>
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| 274 | <listitem>
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| 275 | <para>If you use <command>xdm</command> or some other display manager
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| 276 | that calls the <filename>~/.xsession</filename> file, you can add
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| 277 | <command>dbus-launch</command> to the line in your
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| 278 | <filename>~/.xsession</filename> file that starts your graphical
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| 279 | desktop environment. The syntax would be similar to the example in
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| 280 | the <filename>~/.xinitrc</filename> file.</para>
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| 281 | </listitem>
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[cfe2f1b6] | 282 | <!-- Enabled by default.
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[3565e02] | 283 | <listitem>
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| 284 | <para>If you use <command>gdm</command> or some other display manager
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| 285 | that utilizes custom files to initiate sessions, use the example in
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| 286 | <xref linkend="gdm-config-dbus"/> of the
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| 287 | <application>GDM</application> instructions to create a file
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| 288 | containing <command>dbus-launch</command>.</para>
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[cfe2f1b6] | 289 | </listitem>-->
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[3565e02] | 290 | <listitem>
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| 291 | <para>The examples shown previously use
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| 292 | <command>dbus-launch</command> to specify a program to be run. This
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| 293 | has the benefit (when also using the
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| 294 | <parameter>--exit-with-session</parameter> parameter) of stopping the
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| 295 | session daemon when the specified program is stopped. You can also
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| 296 | start the session daemon in your system or personal startup scripts
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| 297 | by adding the following lines:</para>
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| 298 |
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| 299 | <screen><userinput><literal># Start the D-BUS session daemon
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| 300 | eval `dbus-launch`
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| 301 | export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS</literal></userinput></screen>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | <para>This method will not stop the session daemon when you exit
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| 304 | your shell, therefore you should add the following line to your
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| 305 | <filename>~/.bash_logout</filename> file:</para>
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| 306 |
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| 307 | <screen><userinput><literal># Kill the D-BUS session daemon
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| 308 | kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID</literal></userinput></screen>
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[bccbdaea] | 309 | </listitem>
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[4ec808b] | 310 |
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[3565e02] | 311 | <listitem>
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[c45cb57] | 312 | <para>A hint has been written that provides ways to start scripts
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| 313 | using the KDM session manager of KDE. The concepts in this hint could
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[7712824] | 314 | possibly be used with other session managers as well. The hint is
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[c45cb57] | 315 | located at <ulink
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| 316 | url="&hints-root;/downloads/files/execute-session-scripts-using-kdm.txt"/>.
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| 317 | </para>
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[3565e02] | 318 | </listitem>
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[c45cb57] | 319 |
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[3565e02] | 320 | </itemizedlist>
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| 321 |
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[e8e3312d] | 322 | </sect3>
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| 323 |
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| 324 | </sect2>
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| 325 |
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| 326 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 327 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 328 |
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| 329 | <segmentedlist>
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| 330 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[bf325a39] | 331 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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[e8e3312d] | 332 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 333 |
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| 334 | <seglistitem>
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[265a5ac] | 335 | <seg>dbus-cleanup-sockets, dbus-daemon, dbus-daemon-launch-helper,
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[d6341da] | 336 | dbus-launch, dbus-monitor, dbus-send and dbus-uuidgen</seg>
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[bf325a39] | 337 | <seg>libdbus-1.{so,a}</seg>
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[cda0a69] | 338 | <seg>/etc/dbus-1/{session.d,system.d}, /usr/{include/dbus-1.0/dbus,
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| 339 | lib/{dbus-1.0/include/dbus,dbus/dbus-1},share/dbus-1/{services,
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| 340 | system-services}}, /var/{lib/dbus,run/dbus}</seg>
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[e8e3312d] | 341 | </seglistitem>
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| 342 | </segmentedlist>
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| 343 |
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| 344 | <variablelist>
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| 345 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 346 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 347 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 348 |
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| 349 | <varlistentry id="dbus-cleanup-sockets">
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| 350 | <term><command>dbus-cleanup-sockets</command></term>
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| 351 | <listitem>
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| 352 | <para>is used to clean up leftover sockets in a directory.</para>
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| 353 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-cleanup-sockets">
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| 354 | <primary sortas="b-dbus-cleanup-sockets">dbus-cleanup-sockets</primary>
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| 355 | </indexterm>
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| 356 | </listitem>
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| 357 | </varlistentry>
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| 358 |
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| 359 | <varlistentry id="dbus-daemon">
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| 360 | <term><command>dbus-daemon</command></term>
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| 361 | <listitem>
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| 362 | <para>is the <application>D-BUS</application> message bus
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| 363 | daemon.</para>
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| 364 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-daemon">
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| 365 | <primary sortas="b-dbus-daemon">dbus-daemon</primary>
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| 366 | </indexterm>
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| 367 | </listitem>
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| 368 | </varlistentry>
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| 369 |
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| 370 | <varlistentry id="dbus-launch">
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| 371 | <term><command>dbus-launch</command></term>
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| 372 | <listitem>
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| 373 | <para>is used to start <command>dbus-daemon</command> from a shell
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| 374 | script. It would normally be called from a user's login
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| 375 | scripts.</para>
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| 376 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-launch">
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| 377 | <primary sortas="b-dbus-launch">dbus-launch</primary>
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| 378 | </indexterm>
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| 379 | </listitem>
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| 380 | </varlistentry>
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| 381 |
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| 382 | <varlistentry id="dbus-monitor">
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| 383 | <term><command>dbus-monitor</command></term>
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| 384 | <listitem>
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| 385 | <para>is used to monitor messages going through a
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| 386 | <application>D-BUS</application> message bus.</para>
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| 387 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-monitor">
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| 388 | <primary sortas="b-dbus-monitor">dbus-monitor</primary>
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| 389 | </indexterm>
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| 390 | </listitem>
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| 391 | </varlistentry>
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| 392 |
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| 393 | <varlistentry id="dbus-send">
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| 394 | <term><command>dbus-send</command></term>
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| 395 | <listitem>
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| 396 | <para>is used to send a message to a <application>D-BUS</application>
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| 397 | message bus.</para>
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| 398 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-send">
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| 399 | <primary sortas="b-dbus-send">dbus-send</primary>
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| 400 | </indexterm>
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| 401 | </listitem>
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| 402 | </varlistentry>
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| 403 |
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[bf325a39] | 404 | <varlistentry id="dbus-uuidgen">
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| 405 | <term><command>dbus-uuidgen</command></term>
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[e8e3312d] | 406 | <listitem>
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[bf325a39] | 407 | <para>is used to generate or read a universally unique ID.</para>
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| 408 | <indexterm zone="dbus dbus-uuidgen">
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| 409 | <primary sortas="b-dbus-uuidgen">dbus-uuidgen</primary>
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[e8e3312d] | 410 | </indexterm>
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| 411 | </listitem>
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| 412 | </varlistentry>
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| 413 |
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| 414 | <varlistentry id="libdbus-1">
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[1039de3] | 415 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libdbus-1.{so,a}</filename></term>
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[e8e3312d] | 416 | <listitem>
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| 417 | <para>contains the API functions used by the
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| 418 | <application>D-BUS</application> message daemon.
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| 419 | <application>D-BUS</application> is first a library that provides
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| 420 | one-to-one communication between any two applications;
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| 421 | <command>dbus-daemon</command> is an application that uses this
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| 422 | library to implement a message bus daemon.</para>
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| 423 | <indexterm zone="dbus libdbus-1">
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[1039de3] | 424 | <primary sortas="c-libdbus-1">libdbus-1.{so,a}</primary>
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[e8e3312d] | 425 | </indexterm>
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| 426 | </listitem>
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| 427 | </varlistentry>
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| 428 |
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| 429 | </variablelist>
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| 430 |
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| 431 | </sect2>
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| 432 |
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| 433 | </sect1>
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