yppoll(8)

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✨ yppoll(8) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the yppoll page 💖 this is a System Manager's Manual situation, so grab your boba and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

yppoll — returns the version and master server of a NIS map 🗺️✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

yppoll [ -h host ] [ -d domain ] mapname

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, yppoll queries ypserv(8) and finds out two things for you: which host is the NIS master server for a named map, and what the order number of this map is. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅 no cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h host — asks the NIS server process running on host for the tea about mapname. and if you don't specify host? the server that gets polled is the default server returned by ypwhich(1). lowkey convenient 🫶
  • -d domain — lets you pick a domain that isn't the default domain, i.e. the one returned by domainname(8). main character energy, choosing your own domain 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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

go read those too, iykyk 📚💜

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

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

okay that's the whole page bestie, hope it ate 💖 this was YP Tools 4.2.3, dated April 2010 — slay, periodt ✨🦋🎀

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