redhat man page for yppoll

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

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 2.7							     May 1998								 yppoll(8)