NAME
yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map
SYNOPSIS
yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname
DESCRIPTION
yppoll queries ypserv(8) which host the NIS master server for a named map is and what the order number of this map is.
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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