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).
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Andy, BlueArc Engineering
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