saslauthd start problem

[iantull]

I am building a server using, "The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.10 Server" I have been able to get everthing done up to trying to start saslauthd. I have uncommented start=yes and added the PARRAMS line to the correct location and changed the value of the PIDFILE in the /etc/init/saslauthd file. When trying to "start" saslauthd I get the following error,
/etc/default/saslauthd: 3: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd: Permission denied.
I have checked all my settings and entries and am unable to find the problem. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

[martinfst]

On my (working) Ubuntu 6.10 system, the permissions are:

~$ l /var/spool/postfix/var/
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2006-12-10 20:05 run
4 drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2006-12-10 20:05 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2006-12-10 20:07 ..
~$ l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-12-10 20:05 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-12-10 20:05 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-15 13:26 saslauthd
~$ l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/
total 12
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-12-10 20:05 ..
4 -rw------- 1 root root    5 2007-01-15 13:26 saslauthd.pid
0 -rw------- 1 root root    0 2007-01-15 13:26 mux.accept
0 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2007-01-15 13:26 mux
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-15 13:26 .

PS: Remark for understanding the output - 'l' is an alias for 'ls -latrs'.

[iantull]

Thanks for the info, checked all that and except for the files not being in the saslauthd directory they are all the same permissions as yours. I commented out the PARAMS line in the saslauthd file in default and was able to start saslauthd, but the .pid file was written in /var/run/saslauthd/ but the only way I could stop it was to kill the pid. It has got me stumped as to why I cannot write to that directory, I even tried chmod 777 and still got the same error when trying to start. The failed start does not even show up in any log files?
I am going to spend the next few hours going over my install and see if there is some small typing error somewhere.

[falko]

What's in /etc/fedault/saslauthd and /etc/init.d/saslauthd?
What's the output of

ls -la /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd

?

[iantull]

Thanks for all the help. I found the problem, for some reason my keyboard at the server has been inputing characters that I could not see when using vi. It was not until I downloaded the saslauthd file from default and opened it on my pc that I found odd characters in the entries I had made. I edited the file on the pc then uploaded it and it all worked. I have now re-installed the keyboard on the server and checked it and it now seems to be OK. I must have entered the keyboard type incorrectly when installing it. Hopefully that is all my problem was.

Thanks
Ian.