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Name

yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map

Synopsis

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(8) .

See Also

domainname(8) , ypbind(8) , ypcat(8) , ypmatch(1) , ypserv(8) , ypset(8) , ypwhich(1)

Author

yppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.

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