yppoll (8) - Linux Manuals

yppoll: return version and master server of a NIS map

NAME

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).

AUTHOR

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

SEE ALSO

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