yppush(1M)                                             yppush(1M)



     NAME
          yppush, yppull, yppoll - yellow pages administration
          utilities

     SYNOPSIS
          yppush [-h hostname] [-d domainname] mapname
          yppull [-h hostname] [-d domainname] mapname
          yppoll [-h hostname] [-d domainname] mapname

     DESCRIPTION
          These commands supply an interface to the running the yellow
          pages (YP) system.  They make use of YP services themselves,
          which must be available at the site where the commands are
          issued.  The issuing site may be a YP client; it need not be
          a server.  The rpcinfo(1M) program may be useful for
          determining if the YP processes ypserv and ypbind are up and
          running at a site.  The processes that comprise the YP
          system are described in ypserv(1M).  The YP database format
          is described in ypfiles(4).

          yppush tells a master YP server process (ypserv) to direct
          its peer processes to set the master of the named map to
          that master server, and to get a new copy of the named map.
          If the host is not the master of the named map, the command
          will succeed, but no action will be taken by the YP server.

          yppull tells a slave YP server process (ypserv) to try and
          get a more recent copy of the named map, preferably from the
          map's master.  If the server is the master of the named map,
          the command will succeed, but no action will be taken by the
          YP server.

          yppoll asks a ypserv (master or slave) for information about
          one map.  The information returned is whether the map exists
          at the site, what version number is in the map, and which
          server is thought to be the map's master.

     OPTIONS
          -h   Specifies the hostname on which the ypserv process is
               running.  The default is the local host.

          -d   Specifies an alternate domainname for the YP.  The
               default is the domain for the local host.

     FILES
          /etc/yp/yppoll
          /etc/yp/yppull
          /etc/yp/yppush

     SEE ALSO
          rpcinfo(1M), ypserv(1M), ypfiles(4).




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