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yppoll

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

NAME

       yppoll - return version and master server of a NIS map

SYNOPSIS

       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(8).

SEE ALSO

       domainname(8), ypbind(8), ypcat(8), ypmatch(1), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)

AUTHOR

       yppoll is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.

YP Tools 2.14							    April 2010								 yppoll(8)

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