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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>.