yppoll

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 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(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@suse.de>.



YP Tools 2.7                       May 1998                          yppoll(8)