Lars Hecking writes: > > One problem I have with custom CentOS 6 installation is that NIS auto.* > maps are not available. According to boot.log, ypbind starts before autofs, > but when I login to the machine, the maps are not available until I issue > a service autofs restart. > > Any pointers on what to check? I guess CentOS doesn't use pid randomisation. autofs does start before ybind: root 2107 1 0 16:40 ? 00:00:00 automount --pid-file /var/run/autofs.pid root 2517 1 0 16:41 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind root 3009 2976 0 16:43 pts/0 00:00:00 egrep auto|ypb Another machine I installed interactively (this one is kickstarted) works correctly.