NAME

       yppoll - 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

       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>.

YP Tools 2.9                                        May 1998                                           yppoll(8)