HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

yppoll(1M) yppoll(1M)

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)).

WARNINGS

The NIS Version 1 protocol will not be available in a future HP-UX release. HP recommends that you use

the next version of this protocol.

AUTHOR

yppoll was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.