Saslauthd fails to start

[Cracklefish]

Hi,

set-up is Perfect Server, ISPC3, OpenSuSE 11.1

All was working fine for a long time then I got a SMTP server log in failed message. On investigation I discovered that saslauthd was not running and would not start on boot or with etc/init.d/saslauthd start (error 7)

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling saslauthd using yast to no avail.

All services, except saslauthd, start at boot up.

Apache, pop & webmail seem ok

[Mark_NL]

try:

strace /etc/init.d/saslauthd start

[Cracklefish]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the super prompt reply but I'm going to need some assistance. The output is many screens-full. More than I can read using Putty. I have local access to the server but I don't know how to capture it into a txt file or get that out of the machine.

regards
Rick

[Mark_NL]

run:

strace -o saslauthd.txt /etc/init.d/saslauthd start

attach the file to your next reply and i'll have a look at it.

[Cracklefish]

Hi Mark,

I have attached a file.

Thanks for the help.

Rick

[Mark_NL]

Hmm, can't make anything of that, just that it failes to start (i forgot to ask to run it with follow childprocs, but let's forget that)

You said you reinstalled saslauthd, didn't that overwrite some of your configuration settings?

Also, can you see anything related to the saslauthd process in your log files when you try to start it? If there's not enough info, you can set the debug level up, so you get more information in your log files. I'm not really a suse user, so i'm not sure where those sasl config files are but i guess somewhere in /etc/courier/