NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages

Appendix A 379

Link Points to illegal name

The passed name resolved to a LINK type object and the contents of the

object pointed to an invalid name.

This message is generated by the NIS+ error code constant

NIS_LINKNAMEERROR. See the nis_tables(3N) and nis_names(3N) man

pages for more information.

Load limit of numeric-variable reached!

An attempt has been made to create a child process when the maximum

number of child processes has already been created on this server. This

message is seen on the server’s system log, but only if the threshold for

logging messages has been set to include LOG_WARNING level messages.

This message is displayed when you are changing your password with

nispasswd. The system has changed your password but has been unable

to update your credentials in the cred table with the new password or to

restore your original password in the passwd table. The message is

followed by these instructions:

Use NEW password for login and OLD password for keylogin. Use

“chkey -p” to reencrypt the credentials with the new login

password. You must keylogin explicitly after your next login.

These instructions are then followed by a status message explaining why

it was not possible to revert back to the old password. If you see these

messages, be sure to follow the instructions as given.

log_resync: Cannot truncate transaction log file

An attempt has been made to checkpoint the log, and the rpc.nisd

daemon is trying to shrink the log file after deleting the checkpointed

entries from the log. See the ftruncate(2) man page for a description of

various factors that might cause this routine to fail. See also “If nisping

-C Fails or Transaction Logs Are Not Truncated” on page 325.

Malformed Name or illegal name

The name passed to the function is not a legal or valid NIS+ name.

One possible cause is that someone changed an existing domain name.

Existing domain names should not be changed.

This message is generated by the NIS+ error code constant

NIS_BADNAME. See the nis_tables(3N) man page for more information.