06-18-2005
As the following forum rule exists:
(8) No BSD vs. Linux vs. Windows or similar threads.
I think it will be wise for me not to name names. I am personally not inclined towards any particular distribution. I would rather think in this way: I can keep server performance at the maximum by trimming unnecessary services running at the background, excluding unnecessary drivers in the kernel and probably recompile it to get some compiler-specific optimizations. If so the choice of distribution may not necessarily matter, though from my past experience Red Hat/Fedora seems to install many packages by default (and thus starting them by default) and many of which can only be "forcefully" removed by "rpm -e" instead of from its package management frontend, so personally I am not quite convinced that it is a lightweight distribution for heavy server use unless you are prepared to perform some trimming after the installation.
I may be wrong. If so, correct me.
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NAME
yppoll - return current version of a NIS map at a NIS server host
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/yppoll [-d ypdomain] [-h host] mapname
DESCRIPTION
The yppoll command asks a ypserv() process what the order number is, and which host is the master NIS server for the named map.
OPTIONS
-d ypdomain Use ypdomain instead of the default domain.
-h host Ask the ypserv process at host about the map parameters. If host is not specified, the NIS server for the local
host is used. That is, the default host is the one returned by ypwhich(1).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWnisu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ypwhich(1), ypfiles(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 1992 yppoll(1M)