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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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