Comment 1 for bug 533029

This is the upstart job that I've hacked together, but either it's incorrect, or Upstart is misbehaving, because it's not working terribly well.

description "automounter"
author "Andrew Pollock <email address hidden>"

start on (net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

expect daemon
respawn

pre-start script
 . /etc/default/autofs

 # Make sure the (right) kernel module is loaded
 if ! grep -q autofs /proc/filesystems; then
  if !modprobe autofs4 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   echo "Error: failed to load autofs4 module"
   exit 1
  fi
 elif [ -f /proc/modules ] && grep -q ^autofs[^4] /proc/modules; then
  # wrong autofs filesystem module loaded
  echo
  echo "Error: autofs kernel module is loaded, autofs4 required"
  exit 1
 fi

 # Check misc device
 if [ -n "$USE_MISC_DEVICE" -a "$USE_MISC_DEVICE" = "yes" ]; then
  sleep 1
  if [ -e "/proc/misc" ]; then
   MINOR=$(awk '/autofs/ { print $1 }' /proc/misc)
   if [ -n "$MINOR" -a ! -c "/dev/autofs" ]; then
    mknod -m 0600 /dev/autofs c 10 $MINOR
   fi
  fi
  if [ -x /sbin/restorecon -a -c /dev/autofs ]; then
   /sbin/restorecon /dev/autofs
  fi
 else
  if [ -c /dev/autofs ]; then
   rm /dev/autofs
  fi
 fi
end script

exec /usr/sbin/automount