niserror(1)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Attributes | See Also | Notes

Name

niserror– display NIS+ error messages

Synopsis

niserror error-num

Description

niserror prints the NIS+ error associated with status value error-num on the standard output. It is used by shell scripts to translate NIS+ error numbers that are returned into text messages.

Examples

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Example 1 Using niserror




The following example prints the error associated with the error number 20:

example% niserror 20 Not Found, no such name

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Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWnisu

See Also

NIS+(1), nis_error(3NSL), attributes(5)

Notes

NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris operating system. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are available in the current Solaris release. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.10  Last Revised 2 Dec 2005

Name | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Attributes | See Also | Notes