niserror — Display NIS+ Error Messages

Synopsis

/usr/bin/niserror error-num
					

Description

Use the niserror command to print the NIS+ error associated with status value error-num on the standard output. This command is used in shell scripts to translate returned NIS+ error numbers into text messages.

Examples

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

castle% niserror 20 
Not Found, no such name 
castle% 

The following example prints the error associated with the error number 21.

castle% niserror 21 
Name/entry isn’t unique 
castle% 

Attributes

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

Attribute Type Attribute Value
Availability SUNWnisu

See Also

nis+(1), nis_error(3N), attributes(5) ...

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