Having applied your patch to autofs and reenabling insserv, I had to reinstall 
portmap to get its links in /etc/rc*d so that when nis started, the portmapper 
was enabled.

Once I'd done that, autofs is still starting before nis:

ws-andyc-debian64:~# ls /etc/rc*d/*{nis,autofs}
/etc/rc0.d/K01autofs  /etc/rc2.d/S15nis     /etc/rc4.d/S15nis
/etc/rc1.d/K01autofs  /etc/rc3.d/S02autofs  /etc/rc5.d/S02autofs
/etc/rc1.d/K01nis     /etc/rc3.d/S15nis     /etc/rc5.d/S15nis
/etc/rc2.d/S02autofs  /etc/rc4.d/S02autofs  /etc/rc6.d/K01autofs

It's not clear to me from "man insserv" whether that's OK or not. It could be 
that "Should-Start:" is taken care of when autofs is started. Having thought 
about that, that would mean that whatever nis is dependent on would also need 
starting before nis is started and that would lead to working out dependencies 
on the fly: that seems counter to the purpose of creating the links in the 
respective directories in the first place so that cannot be right. So there 
must be something else awry.

I did try reinstalling nis to see whether that would help (it didn't).

-- 
Andy, BlueArc Engineering



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