Computer Science
yppoll(8) yppoll(8)
NAME
yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map
SYNOPSYS
yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname
DESCRIPTION
yppoll
OPTIONS
-h host
Ask the NIS server process running on host for
information about mapname. If host is not speci-
fied, the server polled is the default server
returned by ypwhich(1).
-d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as
returned by domainname(1).
SEE ALSO
domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8),
yset(8), ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR
yppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written
by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>.
YP Tools 2.2 May 1998 1
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