04-21-2004
I had to set a Solaris machine (Solaris 9) using a dumb terminal. So the sun keyboard wasn't used.
I use Ctrl + C to break into the ok> prompt. This worked fine for me.
Give it a go.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
nisshowcache
nisshowcache(1M) System Administration Commands nisshowcache(1M)
NAME
nisshowcache - NIS+ utility to print out the contents of the shared cache file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/nis/nisshowcache [-v]
DESCRIPTION
nisshowcache prints out the contents of the per-machine NIS+ directory cache that is shared by all processes accessing NIS+ on the machine.
By default, nisshowcache only prints out the directory names in the cache along with the list of active servers. The shared cache is main-
tained by nis_cachemgr(1M).
OPTIONS
-v Verbose mode. Print out the contents of each directory object, including the information on the server name and its universal
addresses.
FILES
/var/nis/NIS_SHARED_DIRCACHE
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
nis_cachemgr(1M), syslogd(1M), nisfiles(4), attributes(5)
DIAGNOSTICS
Error messages are sent to the syslogd(1M) daemon.
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.
SunOS 5.11 13 Dec 2001 nisshowcache(1M)