NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A 393
_svcauth_des: timestamp is earlier than the one previously seen from
principal-name
The time stamp received from the client on a subsequent call is earlier
than one seen previously from that client. The severity of this message
depends on what level of security you are running. At a low security
level, this message is primarily for your information; at a higher level,
you may have some corrective action as described below.
Possible causes are as follows:
• The client and server clocks are out of sync. Use date to resynch the
client clock to the server clock.
• The server cached out the entry for this client. The server maintains
a cache of information regarding the current clients. This cache size
equals 64 client handles.
_svcauth_des: timestamp expired for principal-name
The time stamp received from the client is not within the default
35-second window in which it must be received. The severity of this
message depends on what level of security you are running. At a low
security level, this message is primarily for your information; at a higher
level you may have to take corrective action as described below.
Possible causes are as follows:
• The 35-second window is too small to account for slow servers or a
slow network.
• The client and server clocks are so far out of sync that the window
cannot allow for the difference. Use date to resynchronize the client
clock to the server clock.
• The server has cached out the client entry. Retry the operation.
Too Many Attributes
The search criteria passed to the server had more attributes than the
table had searchable columns.
This message is generated by the NIS+ error code constant
NIS_TOOMANYATTRS. See the nis_tables(3N) man page for additional
information.