[Bug 994212] Re: ldap fails to start when /etc/network/interfaces not used

[Ro]

Well, fact is, that the autofs daemon is started right before network
manager is bringing (wired) interfaces up:

<snip>
Jul  8 12:39:07 myclient automount[1431]: Starting automounter version 5.0.6, master map ou=auto.master,ou=[...],dc=example,dc=org
Jul  8 12:39:07 myclient automount[1431]: using kernel protocol version 5.02
Jul  8 12:39:07 myclient automount[1431]: lookup(file): file map /etc/ou=auto.master,ou=[...],dc=example,dc=org missing or not readable
Jul  8 12:39:07 myclient automount[1431]: no mounts in table
[...]
Jul  8 12:39:09 myclient NetworkManager[1100]: <info> Auto-activating connection 'Kabelnetzwerkverbindung 1'.
[...]
Jul  8 12:39:10 myclient NetworkManager[1100]: <info> Activation (eth0) successful, device activated.
</snip>

An elegant workaround would be to use a NetworkManager dispatcher script. Create a new empty file and make it executable:
touch /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/80automount
chmod 755 /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/80automount

Now you can open this file and paste your script which, in its simplest
form, restarts the autofs daemon:

<snip>
#!/bin/bash

# These arguments are handed over by NetworkManager
INTERFACE=$1
ACTION=$2

case "$2" in
        up)
        	# Restart the automount daemon
                /etc/init.d/autofs restart
                ;;

        down)
                ;;

        pre-up)
                ;;

        post-down)
                ;;

        *)
                echo $"Usage: $0 {up|down|pre-up|post-down}"
                exit 1
esac
</snip>

Save, exit and restart. Automount should be working now.

What it does: As soon as a new network connection is brought up successfully, the autofs daemon is restarted. Since at this point the connection is up already, it is now able to get the correct LDAP automount maps from the LDAP server.
This script can be improved of course, but you get the idea.

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  ldap fails to start when /etc/network/interfaces not used

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