February 26, 2005 YPPUSH 8

### NAME

yppush - force distribution of NIS map

### SYNOPSIS

yppush [-v] [-d domainname] [-h hostname] mapname

### DESCRIPTION

yppush is used to distribute a NIS map from a master server to any slave server in the domain. The list of servers of ```domainname` are fetched from the NIS map ```ypservers`.

The options are as follows:

-d domainname
  NIS domain to use instead of the default domain.

-h hostname
  Distribute map only to one host and not to the hosts in the ypserver map.

-v
  Verbose. Announce what the program is doing.

### SEE ALSO

domainname(1), nis(8), ypserv(8)

### AUTHORS

Charles D. Cranor