postfix auth problem (sasl)

[lerra]

Hi! I cant use my postfix to send mail, i get this when i try to send it in the logs:

Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: setting up TLS connection from xxxx[xxx]
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: TLS connection established from xxxx[xxx]: TLSv1 with ciith cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: connect from xxxx[xxx]
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: warning: xxxx[xxx]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: warning: Read failed in network_biopair_interop with errno=0: num_read=0, want_read=5
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: lost connection after AUTH from xxxx[xxx]
Mar 6 08:44:01 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: disconnect from xxxx[xxx]
Mar 6 08:44:06 caveguard postfix/smtpd[4915]: setting up TLS connection from xxxx[xxx]


Anybody that knows what to do? What coud be the problem? I see that the TLS phase works, but when it try to identify the user it cant find db

Here is some other configs:
caveguard:~# cat /etc/default/saslauthd
# This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically
START=yes

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

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

and fro my main.cnf:
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject _unauth_destination

And
caveguard:~# cat /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login
allow_plaintext: true

Any tip?

[falko]

saslauthd isn't running. Start it:

/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

[lerra]

<quote>
caveguard:~# /etc/init.d/saslauthd start
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: /usr/sbin/saslauthd already running.
</quote>

[falko]

Then try

/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart

[lerra]

Still the same error

[falko]

Which distribution do you use?

[lerra]

Debian sarge 3.1 amd64. Followd your howto in perfect setup for debian 3.1

[falko]

Please redo the saslauthd configuration from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge_p4 . Maybe you made a typo somewhere.

[lerra]

Still the same error

[falko]

Please post the output of

ps aux|grep sasl