[millson249]

yes, i know thats the problem thats what im trying to figure out, is why when I run /etc/init.d/saslauthd start it says it failed to start

ps aux|grep sasl confirms it aswell, here is the output...

root      5637  0.0  0.0   2876   792 pts/0    R+   13:52   0:00 grep sasl

here is the contents of /etc/default/saslauthd...

# This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically
START=yes

PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r"

# You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use.
# This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include
# "shadow" or "sasldb", like this:
# MECHANISMS="pam shadow"

MECHANISMS="pam"

and /etc/init.d/saslauthd...

#!/bin/sh -e

NAME=saslauthd
DAEMON="/usr/sbin/${NAME}"
DESC="SASL Authentication Daemon"
DEFAULTS=/etc/default/saslauthd
PWDIR=/var/run/saslauthd
PIDFILE="/var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME}/saslauthd.pid"

createdir() {
# $1 = user
# $2 = group
# $3 = permissions (octal)
# $4 = path to directory
        [ -d "$4" ] || mkdir -p "$4"
        chown -c -h "$1:$2" "$4"
        chmod -c "$3" "$4"
}

test -f "${DAEMON}" || exit 0

# Source defaults file; edit that file to configure this script.
if [ -e "${DEFAULTS}" ]; then
    . "${DEFAULTS}"
fi

# If we're not to start the daemon, simply exit
if [ "${START}" != "yes" ]; then
    exit 0
fi

# If we have no mechanisms defined
if [ "x${MECHANISMS}" = "x" ]; then
    echo "You need to configure ${DEFAULTS} with mechanisms to be used"
    exit 0
fi

# Add our mechanimsms with the necessary flag
PARAMS="${PARAMS} -a ${MECHANISMS}"

START="--start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --startas ${DAEMON} --name ${NAME} -- ${PARAMS}"

# Consider our options
case "${1}" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
	dir=`dpkg-statoverride --list $PWDIR`
	test -z "$dir" || createdir $dir
	if start-stop-daemon ${START} >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
		echo "${NAME}."
	else
		if start-stop-daemon --test ${START} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
			echo "(failed)."
			exit 1
		else
			echo "${DAEMON} already running."
			exit 0
		fi
	fi
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "
        if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile "${PIDFILE}" \
		--startas ${DAEMON} --retry 10 --name ${NAME} \
		>/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
			echo "${NAME}."
	else
		if start-stop-daemon --test ${START} >/dev/null 2>&1; then
			echo "(not running)."
			exit 0
		else
			echo "(failed)."
			exit 1
		fi
	fi
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
  	$0 stop
	exec $0 start
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

and apperently /var/spool/postfix/var/run doesnt exist...

edit: Well... I could swear I did that step, but something happened and it didnt create that folder apperently, I just tried starting the saslauthd daemon and no error messages popped up, unless for some reason it doesnt display the same stuff through ssh, but I think it may have worked, sorry for the trouble =)

thank you =)