NAME
yppoll —
ask version of NIS map from NIS
server
SYNOPSIS
yppoll |
[-T] [-h
host] [-d
domain] mapname |
DESCRIPTION
yppoll asks a NIS server process for the order number
and which host is the master server for mapname.
The options are as follows:
-T- Use TCP protocol instead of UDP for request if the
-hoption is present. -hhost- 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).
-ddomain- Use the NIS domain domain instead of the default domain as returned by domainname(1).
SEE ALSO
domainname(1), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), ypwhich(1), nis(8), ypbind(8), ypset(8)
AUTHORS
Theo de Raadt and John Brezak