NAME
yppoll – ask version of NIS map from NIS server
SYNOPSIS
yppoll [-d domain] [-h host] mapname
DESCRIPTION
yppoll asks a NIS server process for the order number and which host is the master server for mapname.
The options are as follows:
- -d domain
-
Use the NIS domain domain instead of the default domain as returned by domainname(1).
- -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).
SEE ALSO
domainname(1), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypwhich(1), yp(8), ypbind(8), ypset(8)
AUTHORS
Theo de Raadt and John Brezak