yppoll (8) Linux Manual Page

yppoll – return version and master server of a NIS map

Synopsis

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(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 [at] linux-nis.org>.