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ttsession(1)		 USER COMMANDS		     ttsession(1)

NAME
     ttsession - the ToolTalk message server

SYNOPSIS
     ttsession [-hNpsStv] [-E|-X] [-a level] [-d display]
     [-c [command]]

DESCRIPTION
     The ttsession utility is the ToolTalk message server.  This
     background	process	must be	running	before any messages can
     be	sent or	received.  Each	message	server defines a session.

     The message server	has no user interface and typically runs
     in	the background,	started	either by the user's .xinitrc
     file or automatically by any program that needs to	send or
     receive a message.

OPTIONS
     The following options are available:

	-a level
	      Set the server authentication level.  The	following
	      level string values are supported:

		 unix	 The sender and	receiver must have the
			 same user ID.

		 des	 The underlying	RPC calls use AUTH_DES.

	-c [command]
	      Start a process tree session and run the given com-
	      mand.  The ttsession utility sets	the environment
	      variable TT_SESSION to the name of this session.
	      Any process started with this variable in	the
	      environment defaults to being in this session.  If
	      command is omitted, ttsession invokes the	shell
	      named by the SHELL environment variable.	Every-
	      thing after -c on	the command line is used as the
	      command to be executed.

	-d display
	      Specify an X Windows display.  The ToolTalk session
	      will consist of those applications displaying on
	      the named	display.  The default display is identi-
	      fied by the DISPLAY environment variable.

	-E    Read in the types	from the Classing Engine data-
	      base.  If	neither	-E nor -X is given, -X is
	      assumed.

	-h    Write a help message to standard error that
	      describes	the command syntax of ttsession, and

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	      exit.

	-N    Maximize the number of clients allowed to	connect
	      to (in other words, open procids in) this	session
	      by attempting to raise the limit of open file
	      descriptors.  The	precise	number of clients is
	      system-dependent;	on some	systems	this option may
	      have no effect.

	-p    Write the	name of	a new process tree session to
	      standard output, and then	fork a background
	      instance of ttsession to manage this new session.

	-s    Silent.  Do not write any	warning	messages to stan-
	      dard error.

	-S    Do not fork a background instance	to manage the
	      ttsession	session.

	-t    Turn on trace mode.  See ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS for
	      how to turn tracing on and off during execution.
	      Tracing displays the state of a message when it is
	      first seen by ttsession.	The lifetime of	the mes-
	      sage is then shown by showing the	result of match-
	      ing the message against type signatures (dispatch
	      stage) and then showing the result of matching the
	      message against any registered message patterns
	      (delivery	stage).	 Any attempt to	send the message
	      to a given process is also shown together	with the
	      success of that attempt.

	-v    Write the	version	number to standard output and
	      exit.

	-X    Read in the types	from the XDR format databases.
	      (Default)

OPERANDS
     None.

STDIN
     Not used.

INPUT FILES
     The XDR format databases listed by	the -X option are serial-
     ized ToolTalk data	structures of an unspecified format,
     except that it is the same	as the format of tt_type_comp(1)
     output files.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     The following environment variables affect	the execution of
     ttsession:

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	CEPATH	       In Classing Engine mode,	this variable
		       tells the Classing Engine where to find
		       the databases that contain ToolTalk types.
		       See ce_db_build(1).

	DISPLAY	       If TT_SESSION is	not set	and DISPLAY is
		       set, then the value of DISPLAY will be
		       used by all ToolTalk clients to identify
		       the ttsession process serving their X
		       display.	 If no such process is running,
		       the ToolTalk service will auto-start one.

		       If ttsession is run with	the -d option and
		       DISPLAY is not set, ttsession sets DISPLAY
		       to be the value of the -d option	for
		       itself and all processes	it forks.  This
		       helps ToolTalk clients to find the right	X
		       display when they are auto-started by
		       ttsession.

	LANG	       Provide a default value for the interna-
		       tionalization variables that are	unset or
		       null.  If LANG is unset or null,	the
		       corresponding value from	the
		       implementation-specific default locale
		       will be used.  If any of	the internation-
		       alization variables contains an invalid
		       setting,	the utility behaves as if none of
		       the variables had been defined.

	LC_ALL	       If set to a non-empty string value, over-
		       ride the	values of all the other	interna-
		       tionalization variables.

	LC_MESSAGES    Determine the locale that is used to
		       affect the format and contents of diagnos-
		       tic messages written to standard	error and
		       informative messages written to standard
		       output.

	NLSPATH	       Determine the location of message catalo-
		       gues for	the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

	TT_ARG_TRACE_WIDTH
		       Specify the number of bytes of argument
		       and context values to write when	in trace
		       mode.  The default is to	print the first
		       40 bytes.

	TTPATH	       In XDR mode, a colon-separated list of
		       directories that	tells ToolTalk where to
		       find the	ToolTalk types databases. See

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		       tt_type_comp(1).

	TTSESSION_CMD
		       Specify the shell command to be used by
		       all ToolTalk clients for	auto-starting
		       ttsession.

     The ttsession utility creates the following variable when it
     invokes another process:

	TT_FILE	       When ttsession invokes a	tool to	receive	a
		       message,	it copies the file attribute (if
		       any) of the message into	this variable,
		       formatted in the	same manner as returned
		       by the tt_message_file(3) function.

	TT_SESSION     The ttsession utility uses this variable
		       to communicate its session ID to	the tools
		       that it starts.	The format of the vari-
		       able is implementation specific.	 If this
		       variable	is set,	the ToolTalk client
		       library uses its	value as the default ses-
		       sion ID.

	TT_TOKEN       Inform the ToolTalk client library that it
		       has been	invoked	by ttsession, so that the
		       client can confirm to ttsession that it
		       started successfully.  The format of the
		       variable	is implementation specific.

     A tool started by ttsession must ensure that the TT_SESSION
     and TT_TOKEN are present in the environment of any	processes
     it	invokes.

RESOURCES
     None.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
     The ttsession utility reacts to two signals.  If it receives
     the SIGUSR1 signal, it toggles trace mode on or off (see the
     -t	option).  If it	receives the SIGUSR2 signal, it	rereads
     the types file.  The ttsession utility takes the standard
     action for	all other signals.

STDOUT
     When the -v option	is used, ttsession writes the version
     number in an unspecified format.  When -p is used,	ttsession
     writes the	name of	a new process tree session.

STDERR
     Used only for diagnostic messages and the help message writ-
     ten by the	-h option.

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OUTPUT FILES
     None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
     None.

EXIT STATUS
     When the -c child process exits, ttsession	exits with the
     status of the exited child.  Otherwise, the following exit
     values are	returned:

	0   Normal termination.	 Without the -c	or -S options, a
	    zero exit status means ttsession has successfully
	    forked an instance of itself that has begun	serving
	    the	session.

	1   Abnormal termination.  The ttsession utility was
	    given invalid command line options,	was interrupted
	    by SIGINT, or encountered some internal error.

	2   Collision.	Another	ttsession was found to be serving
	    the	session	already.

CONSEQUENCES OF	ERRORS
     The ttsession utility takes the standard action for all sig-
     nals.

APPLICATION USAGE
     Since everything after -c on the command line is used as the
     command to	be executed, -c	should be the last option.

     Tracing is	helpful	for seeing how messages	are dispatched
     and delivered, but	the output may be voluminous.

EXAMPLES
     None.

SEE ALSO
     tt_type_comp(1), tt_message_file(3).

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See also ttsession(1)

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