yppoll(8)yppoll(8)NAMEyppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map
SYNOPSYSyppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname
DESCRIPTIONyppollOPTIONS-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 ALSOdomainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), yset(8),
ypwhich(1)AUTHORyppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten
Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.
YP Tools 2.9 May 1998 yppoll(8)