NIS restart issue

[Paul Michael Reilly]

I recently had to enable NIS on my FC5 box.  It was rather painful.
Nowhere near as direct and simple as it ought to be.  I'm anxious to
hear how a Fedora guru would go about configuring and running NIS (as
a client) on a box that was not originally configured to do so.

What I did was somehow discover that running authconfig-gtk would be a
good thing.  This was after I yummed ypbind, configured /etc/ypconf
and started the ypbind service using the services gui tool, which then
proceeded to "hang" (no response other than the wait cursor for many,
many minutes).  Then I disabled selinux and the firewall and still no
joy.  Only after running authconfig-gtk did NIS startup.  So
authconfig clearly knows to do something that I am not aware of.  I
hate when that happens. :-)

But then my system got rebooted and NIS did not restart even though
the ypbind service was configured to restart.  So I need to figure out
what authconfig knows that I don't know and how to set things up to
have NIS running after a reboot.

-pmr