NAME
perror - explain error codes
SYNOPSIS
perror [options]errorcode...
DESCRIPTION
For most system errors, MariaDB displays, in addition to an internal text message, the system error code in one of the following styles:
message ... (errno: #)
message ... (Errcode: #)You can find out what the error code means by examining the documentation for your system or by using the perror utility.
perror prints a description for a system error code or for a storage engine (table handler) error code.
Invoke perror like this:
shell> \nperror [\noptions\n] \nerrorcode\n ...Example:
shell> \nperror 13 64\n
OS error code 13: Permission denied
OS error code 64: Machine is not on the networkNote that the meaning of system error messages may be dependent on your operating system. A given error code may mean different things on different operating systems.
perror supports the following options.
Display a help message and exit.
Silent mode. Print only the error message.
Verbose mode. Print error code and message. This is the default behavior.
Display version information and exit.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2025 MariaDB Foundation
This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/
AUTHOR
MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).