[Bug 50430] Re: NIS has problems starting before the network comes up

[Paul Smith]

Here's what I use.  This works for me in 10.04 (and below) but I haven't
tried it with 10.10 yet.

It sure as heck would be nice if someone paid a little attention to this
bug.

Save this as "reautofs", then follow the directions in the comments.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Stupid NetworkManager doesn't wait for NIS to start before starting
# autofs, so we have no maps.  Restart it.
#
# Install with:
#   sudo cp ~/Downloads/reautofs /etc/init.d
#   sudo update-rc.d reautofs defaults 99
#
#
# Author:  Paul Smith <psmith at gnu.org>

start () {
    nohup /bin/sh -c '
        while true; do
            ypwhich && break;
            sleep 1;
        done;
        /etc/init.d/autofs restart
    ' </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
}


case $1 in
    start) start ;;
    *)     : no op ;;
esac

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NIS has problems starting before the network comes up
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50430
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