Starting the dialog terminal process through Unix and Linux system

A Unix or Linux system can also start the dialog terminal process after the user has successfully signed on to Unix or Linux system. To this end, the command for starting the dialog terminal process can be entered as follows, for example, in the user’s .profile:

• .../utmdtp switch means that the shell remains active after utmdtp has terminated.

• exec .../utmdtp switch means that the shell is also terminated when utmdtp is terminated.

A second option is for the system administrator to enter the dialog terminal process as a program name in the /etc/passwd file for the user, or (if switches are used) start a shell procedure containing the call of the dialog terminal process.

It only makes sense to start the dialog terminal process after the work process has reported the successful cold start or warm start of the application. Otherwise, the dialog terminal process terminates again with the UTM message:

U111 UTM application applicationname not started.

If an error occurs while the dialog terminal process is executing, the process terminates with the following UTM message. The error numbers nnnn are explained in the openUTM manual “Messages, Debugging and Diagnostics on Unix, Linux and Windows Systems”:

U120 utmdtp process terminated with error number nnnn.