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Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide > Chapter 7 Desktop
Search PathsDatabase (Action/Data Types) Search Path |
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The database search path directs the desktop to search specified locations for files containing:
You may need to modify the database search path when you create a database server, or when you add a local location for database files. The default database search path includes personal, system-wide, and built-in locations. The default language is C.
When a location is added to the application search path, the appropriate database subdirectory is automatically added to the database search path (see “How the Application Search Path Affects the Database, Icon, and Help Search Paths”). For example, if the application server hosta: is added to the application search path, the directory hosta:/etc/dt/appconfig/types/language is automatically added to the database search path. The database search path is assembled from the built-in locations and the following input variables:
Use these input variables to specify locations outside the application search path. The assembled database search path is specified by the output variable DTDATABASESEARCHPATH. The syntax for the variables DTSPSYSDATABASEHOSTS and DTSPUSERDATABASEHOSTS is:
where location can have the syntax:
The value of the database search path ( DTDATABASESEARCHPATH) is created by assembling the following locations, listed in order of precedence:
The syntax:
is expanded to specify the directory /etc/dt/appconfig/types on system hostname. |
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