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yp_err_string

Name

yp_err_string — Fetches a human-readable error string for an error number.

Synopsis

string yp_err_string(errorcode); int errorcode: Error code to match to an error message

Returns

A string; FALSE on error

Description

yp_err_string() fetches the error message for a given error number. If the error number provided is not a valid error number, a message such as Unknown NIS error code is returned.

The error message returned may vary between implementations of NIS. The following table shows the list of messages returned by the glibc implementation of NIS.

Number	Description
1	Request arguments bad
2	RPC failure on NIS operation
3	Can't bind to server that serves this domain
4	No such map in server's domain
5	No such key in map
6	Internal NIS error
7	Local resource allocation failure
8	No more records in map database
9	Can't communicate with portmapper
10	Can't communicate with ypbind
11	Can't communicate with ypserv
12	Local domain name not set
13	NIS map database is bad
14	NIS client/server version mismatch - can't supply service
15	Permission denied
16	Database is busy

Version

PHP 4+ (At the time of writing, this function was not documented in the online manual)

Example

Example 1439. Display all the yp error messages

<table border="1">
<?php
// Initialize variables
$last_errstr = '';

for ($errno = 1; TRUE; ++$errno) {
   // Find an error message for the given error number
   $errstr = yp_err_string ($errno);

   // If the last error message matches the current error message
   // we have likely gone past the range of valid error numbers
   if ($last_errstr == $errstr)
      break;

   printf ('<tr><td align="right">%d</td><td>%s</td></tr>', $errno, $errstr);
   $last_errstr = $errstr;
}
?>
</table>

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