NAME
yppoll — query NIS server for information about NIS map
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/yppoll
[-h
host]
[-d
domain]
mapname
Remarks
The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp).
Although the name has changed, the functionality of the
service remains the same.
DESCRIPTION
yppoll
asks a Network Information Service (NIS)
server process (see
ypserv(1M))
to return the order number (the
time
in seconds when the map was built -
time(2))
and master NIS server's host name for a NIS database named
mapname.
yppoll
then writes them to standard output.
If the server uses Version 1 NIS protocol,
yppoll
uses this older protocol to communicate with it.
yppoll
also prints the old style diagnostic messages in case of failure.
See
ypfiles(4)
and
ypserv(1M)
for an overview of Network Information Service.
Options
- -h host
Ask the
ypserv
process on
host
to return the map information (see
ypserv(1M)).
If
-h host
is not specified, the host returned by
ypwhich
is used (see
ypwhich(1)).
- -d domain
Use
domain
instead of the domain returned by
domainname
(see
domainname(1)).
AUTHOR
yppoll
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
