yppoll(8)

yppoll8

Ask version of nis map from nis server

Usage

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

Overview

yppoll asks a NIS server process for the order number and which host is the master server for mapname.

The options are as follows:

-d domain

Use the NIS domain domain instead of the default domain as returned by domainname(1).

-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).

Releases

77 releases since FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE; the text changed 38 times.

  1. 3.0–3.2
  2. 3.3–3.5.1
  3. 4.0–4.2
  4. 4.3–4.5
  5. 4.6–4.7
  6. 4.8–4.11
  7. 5.0–6.3
  8. 6.4
  9. 7.0
  10. 7.1
  11. 7.2
  12. 7.3
  13. 7.4
  14. 8.0
  15. 8.1
  16. 8.2
  17. 8.3
  18. 8.4
  19. 9.0
  20. 9.1
  21. 9.2
  22. 9.3
  23. 10.0
  24. 10.1
  25. 10.2
  26. 10.3
  27. 10.4
  28. 11.0
  29. 11.1
  30. 11.2
  31. 11.3
  32. 11.4
  33. 12.0
  34. 12.1
  35. 12.2
  36. 12.3
  37. 12.4
  38. 13.0–13.2
  39. 13.3–16.0

Authors

Theo de Raadt and John Brezak

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.