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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

Print the error associated with the error number 20:

niserror 20 Not Found, no such name

WARNINGS

HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is supported.

LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the industry standard naming services based on LDAP.

AUTHOR

niserror was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.