source: chapter08/dbus.xml@ 51494bf

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<sect1 id="ch-system-dbus" role="wrap" revision="systemd">
  <?dbhtml filename="dbus.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>dbus</productname>
    <productnumber>&dbus-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&dbus-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>D-Bus-&dbus-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus">
    <primary sortas="a-dbus">D-Bus</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk
    to one another. D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as
    "new hardware device added" or "printer queue changed") and a
    per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user
    applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general one-to-one
    message passing framework, which can be used by any two applications to
    communicate directly (without going through the message bus daemon).</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&dbus-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&dbus-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of D-Bus</title>

    <para>Prepare D-Bus for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc                    \
            --localstatedir=/var                 \
            --runstatedir=/run                   \
            --disable-static                     \
            --disable-doxygen-docs               \
            --disable-xml-docs                   \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-&dbus-version; \
            --with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          <parameter>--runstatedir=/run</parameter> and
          <parameter>--with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket</parameter>
        </term>
        <listitem>
          <para>These set the location of the PID file and the system bus socket
          to be in <filename class="directory">/run</filename>, instead of
          deprecated <filename class="directory">/var/run</filename>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does come with a test suite, but it requires several
    packages that are not included in LFS. Instructions for running the
    test suite can be found in the BLFS book at
    <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/dbus.html"/>.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>Create a symlink so that D-Bus and systemd can use the same
    <filename>machine-id</filename> file:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sfv /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-dbus" role="content">
    <title>Contents of D-Bus</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>dbus-cleanup-sockets, dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, dbus-monitor,
        dbus-run-session, dbus-send, dbus-test-tool,
        dbus-update-activation-environment, and dbus-uuidgen</seg>
        <seg>libdbus-1.{a,so}</seg>
        <seg>/etc/dbus-1, /usr/include/dbus-1.0, /usr/lib/dbus-1.0,
        /usr/share/dbus-1, /usr/share/doc/dbus-&dbus-version;,
        and /var/lib/dbus</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-cleanup-sockets">
        <term><command>dbus-cleanup-sockets</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is used to remove leftover sockets in a directory</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-cleanup-sockets">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-cleanup-sockets">dbus-cleanup-sockets</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-daemon">
        <term><command>dbus-daemon</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Is the D-Bus message bus daemon</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-daemon">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-daemon">dbus-daemon</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-launch">
        <term><command>dbus-launch</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Starts <command>dbus-daemon</command> from a shell
          script</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-launch">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-launch">dbus-launch</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-monitor">
        <term><command>dbus-monitor</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Monitors messages passing through a D-Bus message bus</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-monitor">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-monitor">dbus-monitor</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-run-session">
        <term><command>dbus-run-session</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Starts a session bus instance of <command>dbus-daemon</command>
          from a shell script and starts a specified program in that
          session</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-run-session">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-run-session">dbus-run-session</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-send">
        <term><command>dbus-send</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Sends a message to a D-Bus message bus</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-send">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-send">dbus-send</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-test-tool">
        <term><command>dbus-test-tool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Is a tool to help packages test
          <application>D-Bus</application></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-test-tool">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-test-tool">dbus-test-tool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <!-- This is a very long command name. Excuse the long <primary> statement below. -->
      <varlistentry id="dbus-update-activation-environment">
        <term><command>dbus-update-activation-environment</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Updates environment variables that will be set for
          <application>D-Bus</application> session services</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-update-activation-environment">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-update-activation-environment">dbus-update-activation-environment</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="dbus-uuidgen">
        <term><command>dbus-uuidgen</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Generates a universally unique ID</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-uuidgen">
            <primary sortas="b-dbus-uuidgen">dbus-uuidgen</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libdbus-1">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdbus-1</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Contains API functions used to communicate with the D-Bus
          message bus</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus libdbus-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libdbus-1">libdbus-1</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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