1yppoll(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  yppoll(8)
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NAME

6       yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map
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SYNOPSIS

9       yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname
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DESCRIPTION

12       yppoll  queries  ypserv(8) which host the NIS master server for a named
13       map is and what the order number of this map is.
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OPTIONS

17       -h host
18              Ask the NIS server process running on host for information about
19              mapname.   If  host  is  not specified, the server polled is the
20              default server returned by ypwhich(1).
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23              Specify a domain other than the default domain  as  returned  by
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SEE ALSO

27       domainname(8),  ypbind(8),  ypcat(8),  ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypset(8),
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AUTHOR

31       yppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written  by  Thorsten
32       Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
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36YP Tools 4.2.3                    April 2010                         yppoll(8)
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