yppoll(8) - Linux man page

Name

yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map

Synopsys

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

Description

yppoll

Options

-hhost
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 <kukuk@suse.de>.

Referenced By

ypcat(1), ypset(8), yptest(8)