autofs should always start before at and cron

[Mark Russell]

Binary package hint: autofs

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

Installed: 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5.1

If autofs is installed and running, it needs to start before atd or cron. Example, you have an @reboot cronjob that reads or writes to an automounted directory, if the automount isn't ready before cron starts, the job will fail.

[Mark Russell (marrusl)]

This "wait job" produces the correct result. Just add it to /etc/init. It will block cron and atd until autofs is running.

[Mark Russell (marrusl)]

You may still encounter a race condition where autofs reports itself as "started" slightly before it is really ready (see bug #738209) and still end up with the same result but that is outside the scope of this bug.