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 <kukukATsuse.de>.



YP Tools 2.9                                                May 1998                                                   yppoll(8)