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yppoll (8)

return version and master server of a NIS map

SYNOPSYS

    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 (1).

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

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