How to autostart `ypbind` on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

It seems I need to use sysv-rc-conf to manage service startup/shutdown, but no scripts were added to /etc/init.d/ when I installed NIS. I would expect to either have /etc/init.d/nis or /etc/init.d/ypbind.

I installed NIS via apt-get as so:

sudo apt-get install nis

How do I configure ypbind to start automatically when Ubuntu 14.04 boots?

Solution

Looking at the /var/log/upstart/ypbind.log file, I saw ypbind was failing to bind to the server at boot and just quitting. There was actually no problem with auto-starting ypbind.

I determined this was due to DNS not being available at early boot, so I added a couple entries to my /etc/hosts file for the two NIS servers and voila!

Cheers!
--ap