System Administration Commands                         nislog(1M)



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/trans.log  file
     contains  the transaction log maintained by the NIS] server.
     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  logs 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 0, only the log
               header is displayed.


     -t num    Display num transactions from the ``tail'' of  the
               log.  If  the numeric parameter is 0, only the log
               header is displayed.


     -v        Verbose mode.


FILES
     /var/nis/trans.log    transaction log


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:








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System Administration Commands                         nislog(1M)



     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
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SEE ALSO
     NIS](1), rpc.nisd(1M), nisfiles(4), attributes(5)

NOTES
     NIS] might not  be  supported  in  future  releases  of  the
     Solaris  operating  system.  Tools to aid the migration from
     NIS] to LDAP are available in the current  Solaris  release.
     For            more            information,            visit
     http:/www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.







































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