As a System Administrator I will often come across a system error code in a log file and need to look up what it means. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know that error 107 is “Transport endpoint is not connected” off the top of my head. My solution was a small Perl script that will print the error’s meaning or optionally all known error codes and their meaning. The perl code is below this listing of error codes.
001: Operation not permitted 002: No such file or directory 003: No such process 004: Interrupted system call 005: Input/output error 006: No such device or address 007: Argument list too long 008: Exec format error 009: Bad file descriptor 010: No child processes 011: Resource temporarily unavailable 012: Cannot allocate memory 013: Permission denied 014: Bad address 015: Block device required 016: Device or resource busy 017: File exists 018: Invalid cross-device link 019: No such device 020: Not a directory 021: Is a directory 022: Invalid argument 023: Too many open files in system 024: Too many open files 025: Inappropriate ioctl for device 026: Text file busy 027: File too large 028: No space left on device 029: Illegal seek 030: Read-only file system 031: Too many links 032: Broken pipe 033: Numerical argument out of domain 034: Numerical result out of range 035: Resource deadlock avoided 036: File name too long 037: No locks available 038: Function not implemented 039: Directory not empty 040: Too many levels of symbolic links 042: No message of desired type 043: Identifier removed 044: Channel number out of range 045: Level 2 not synchronized 046: Level 3 halted 047: Level 3 reset 048: Link number out of range 049: Protocol driver not attached 050: No CSI structure available 051: Level 2 halted 052: Invalid exchange 053: Invalid request descriptor 054: Exchange full 055: No anode 056: Invalid request code 057: Invalid slot 059: Bad font file format 060: Device not a stream 061: No data available 062: Timer expired 063: Out of streams resources 064: Machine is not on the network 065: Package not installed 066: Object is remote 067: Link has been severed 068: Advertise error 069: Srmount error 070: Communication error on send 071: Protocol error 072: Multihop attempted 073: RFS specific error 074: Bad message 075: Value too large for defined data type 076: Name not unique on network 077: File descriptor in bad state 078: Remote address changed 079: Can not access a needed shared library 080: Accessing a corrupted shared library 081: .lib section in a.out corrupted 082: Attempting to link in too many shared libraries 083: Cannot exec a shared library directly 084: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character 085: Interrupted system call should be restarted 086: Streams pipe error 087: Too many users 088: Socket operation on non-socket 089: Destination address required 090: Message too long 091: Protocol wrong type for socket 092: Protocol not available 093: Protocol not supported 094: Socket type not supported 095: Operation not supported 096: Protocol family not supported 097: Address family not supported by protocol 098: Address already in use 099: Cannot assign requested address 100: Network is down 101: Network is unreachable 102: Network dropped connection on reset 103: Software caused connection abort 104: Connection reset by peer 105: No buffer space available 106: Transport endpoint is already connected 107: Transport endpoint is not connected 108: Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown 109: Too many references: cannot splice 110: Connection timed out 111: Connection refused 112: Host is down 113: No route to host 114: Operation already in progress 115: Operation now in progress 116: Stale NFS file handle 117: Structure needs cleaning 118: Not a XENIX named type file 119: No XENIX semaphores available 120: Is a named type file 121: Remote I/O error 122: Disk quota exceeded 123: No medium found 124: Wrong medium type 125: Operation canceled
Code
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# print out system error strings
use strict;
use warnings;
my $errText = "";
if(!defined($ARGV[0])) {
for ($! = 1; $! <= 10000; $!++) {
$errText = $!;
chomp($errText);
if(!($! =~ m/^unknown error/i)) {
printf("%03d: %s\n", $!, $errText);
}
}
}
else {
$! = $ARGV[0];
$errText = $!;
printf("%03d: %s\n", $!, $errText);
}