From: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Can NFS be started after NIS/DNS?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:54:42 +0930 (CST)
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Hi

Does anyone know of any reason why the NFS services on a server can't be
started after NIS and/or DNS servers?  At least Redhat 7.x and Slackware
(8.x) start NFS before these services; however, if local name resolution
depends on either NIS or DNS then NFS needs to be started after these if 
previously exising clients are to have their access permissions restored
correctly.

I can see no reason why switching the order can't be done.

I have been starting NFS after NIS/DNS on a server for several weeks now and
it hasn't given any troubles across numerous test reboots.  On the other
hand, I did read in an archived message from some years ago that NIS had the
potential to mess NFS up if NIS startup preceeded NFS.

Please CC me any replies since I don't subscribe to the list.

Best regards
  jonathan
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