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>.