NAME
nislog — display the contents of the NIS+ transaction log
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/nislog
[-h num|-t num]
[-v]
[directory]...
DESCRIPTION
nislog
displays the contents of the NIS+
server transaction log on the standard output.
This command can be used to track changes in the namespace.
The
/var/nis/hostname.log
file contains the transaction log maintained by the NIS+ server.
hostname
is the string returned by
uname -n.
When updates occur, they are logged to this file and then
propagated to replicas as log transactions.
When the log is checkpointed,
updates that have been propagated to the replicas are removed.
The
nislog
command can only be run on an NIS+ server by superuser.
It displays the log entries for that server only.
If
directory
is not specified,
the entire log is searched.
Otherwise, only those log entries that correspond to the specified
directories are displayed.
Options
- -h [num]
Display
num
transactions from the "head" of the log.
If the numeric parameter is omitted, it is assumed to be
1.
If the numeric parameter is
0,
only the log header is displayed.
- -t [num]
Display
num
transactions from the "tail" of the log.
If the numeric parameter is omitted, it is assumed to be
1.
If the numeric parameter is
0,
only the log header is displayed.
- -v
Verbose mode.
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.
FILES
- /var/nis/hostname.log
transaction log
AUTHOR
nislog
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
