yppoll

NAME

yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map

SYNOPSYS

yppoll [ I -h host ] [ I -d domain ] mapname

DESCRIPTION

yppoll

OPTIONS

I -h host
Ask the NIS server process running on host for information about R mapname. If host is not specified, the server polled is the default server returned by R ypwhich(1).
I -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>.