NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A 383
• Bad or incorrect parameters. Check the syntax and accuracy of
whatever command you most recently entered.
• An attempt to allocate system memory failed. See “If You Have
Insufficient Memory or Disk Space” on page 321.
If your command syntax is correct, and your system does not seem to be
short of memory, call your HP support contact.
nis_checkpoint_svc: readonly child instructed to checkpoint ignored.
nis_dumplog_svc: readonly child called to dump log, ignored
These are simply status messages indicating that a read-only process
attempted to perform an operation restricted to the parent process, and
the attempt was aborted. No action need be taken.
nis_dump_svc: load limit reached.
The maximum number of child processes permitted on your system has
been reached. See “If You Receive an “Unable to Fork” Message” on
page 322.
nis_dump_svc: one replica is already resyncing.
Only one replica can resync from a master at a time. Try the command
later. See “If a Replica Update Fails” on page 326.
nis_dump_svc: Unable to fork a process.
The fork system call has failed. See “If a Replica Update Fails” on
page 326, or see the fork(2) man page.
nis_mkdir_svc: readonly child called to mkdir, ignored
nis_ping_svc: readonly child was pung ignored.
nis_rmdir_svc: readonly child called to rmdir, ignored
These are simply status messages indicating that a read-only process
attempted to perform an operation restricted to the parent process, and
the attempt was aborted. No action need be taken.
nisaddcred: no password entry for uid userid
nisaddcred: unable to create credential.
These two messages are generated during execution of the nispopulate
script. The NIS+ command nisaddcred failed to add a Local credential
for the user ID userid on a remote domain. This happens only when you
are trying to populate the passwd table in a remote domain.
To correct the problem, add a table path in the local passwd table: