yppoll

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME

yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map  

SYNOPSIS

yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname

 

DESCRIPTION

yppoll queries ypserv(8) which host the NIS master server for a named map is and what the order number of this map is.

 

OPTIONS

-h host
Ask the NIS server process running on host for information about mapname. If host is not specified, 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(8).
 

SEE ALSO

domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)

 

AUTHOR

yppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.


 

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