First I want to thank you for the detaild “HOWTO’S” that helpd me get my Debian server up and running
Cleanly.
After finishing configuring the base system (The Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge (3.1) ) I went on to the next step of
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV) .
Followed the steps in configuring all the parts of the system but still has a problem with a main part of the system – saslauthd wont start
( maybe permissions problem – read all I could find on the new but still nothing makes it work .
If I run the cmd –
mail:~# saslauthd check -a pam
saslauthd[7888] :detach_tty : Cannot start saslauthd
saslauthd[7888] :detach_tty : could not read from startup_pipe
this is the relavent part of the auth.log as seen when I run the saslauthd check –a pam :::
Oct 15 12:33:50 mail saslauthd[7893]: detach_tty : could not lock pid file /var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid: Resource temporarily unavailable
Oct 15 12:33:50 mail saslauthd[7892]: detach_tty : Cannot start saslauthd
Oct 15 12:33:50 mail saslauthd[7892]: detach_tty : could not read from startup_pipe
This is the auth log output as seen when I make a /etc/init.d/saslauthd stop / start :::
Oct 15 12:37:49 mail saslauthd[7086]: server_exit : master exited: 7086
Oct 15 12:38:12 mail saslauthd[7933]: detach_tty : master pid is: 7933
Oct 15 12:38:12 mail saslauthd[7933]: ipc_init : listening on socket: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
Socket permissions :
mail:~# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 15 12:38 /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
mail:~# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/
total 4
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 15 12:38 mux
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 15 12:38 mux.accept
-rw------- 1 root root 5 Oct 15 12:38 saslauthd.pid
config files :
smtpd.conf :
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login
allow_plaintext: true
saslauthd_path:/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid
saslauthd : /etc/default/saslauthd
# This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically
START=yes
# 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"
Master.cf - /etc/postfix/master.cf :::
# ================================================== ========================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ================================================== ========================
smtp inet n - - - - smtpd
#submission inet n - - - - smtpd
# -o smtpd_etrn_restrictions=reject
#628 inet n - - - - qmqpd
pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n - - 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr fifo n - - 300 1 oqmgr
rewrite unix - - - - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - - - 0 bounce
defer unix - - - - 0 bounce
trace unix - - - - 0 bounce
verify unix - - - - 1 verify
flush unix n - - 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
smtp unix - - - - - smtp
relay unix - - - - - smtp
# -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n - - - - showq
error unix - - - - - error
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp
anvil unix - - n - 1 anvil
#
# Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
# pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it wants.
#
# maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
#
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
uucp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient)
ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -d -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient
scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
# only used by postfix-tls
#tlsmgr fifo - - n 300 1 tlsmgr
#smtps inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#587 inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
amavis unix - - - - 2 smtp
-o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
-o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - - - - smtpd
-o content_filter=
-o local_recipient_maps=
-o relay_recipient_maps=
-o smtpd_restriction_classes=
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,rej ect
-o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.10.0/24,192.168.20.0/24,192.168.33.0/24
-o strict_rfc821_envelopes=yes
-o receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_chec ks,no_header_body_checks
-o smtpd_bind_address=127.0.0.1
Smtp - /etc/pam.d/smtp
auth required pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=mypass host=127.0.0.1 db=mail table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=password crypt=1
auth required pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=mypass host=127.0.0.1 db=mail table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=password crypt=1
( mypass=mail_admin_password !!! )
I don’t really know which details can I give more and I really hope you can help me figure out what did I do wrong on
The way .
Best Regards,
TRoiy (
admin@musicinfo.org )
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