Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 3 - saslauthd problem

Hi.

I read in one of Falko's posts somewhere that the Perfect Setup Fedora Core 3 is basically the same for Fedora Core 2. I have followed that and have got so far, but now I have encountered my first error.

works fine.
We then come to

and I get an error,

Code:

error reading information on service imap: No such file or directory

which is fine as Dovecot was installed instead of imap, so I change this to

Code:

chkconfig Dovecot on

and it seems to be ok.

all produce the same error.

>>>>> Should I replace these lines with anything or just leave them out?

All seem to work ok apart from

which throws an error saying

Code:

could not read from startup_pipe

If I just type

Code:

saslauthd start

at the prompt I get an error telling me

Code:

no authentication method specified

and list of options which seems to suggest that saslauthd is there somewhere ready to go but I'm just not giving it the right information. I tried

Code:

saslauthd -a pam

which throws up the message:

Code:

saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : could not read from startup_pipe

Obviously I'm missing something here. Would be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance

 

Leave them out.

Did you do all the steps from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_3_p4 ?

What's in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf?
What's the output of

Code:

telnet localhost 25

(this telnet thing is also described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_3_p4)?

 

>>>>> Yes, to the letter

>>>>>

Code:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

Code:

[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME

 

Looks ok. What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf?

 

Do you want the whole file? Its quite large.

 

Leave out the lines beginning with #.

 

Code:

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix

mail_owner = postfix

inet_interfaces = all
#inet_interfaces = $myhostname
#inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
#proxy_interfaces =
#proxy_interfaces = 1.2.3.4
#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain,
#	mail.$mydomain, www.$mydomain, ftp.$mydomain

#local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
#local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
#local_recipient_maps =
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

#mynetworks_style = class
#mynetworks_style = subnet
#mynetworks_style = host

#mynetworks = 168.100.189.0/28, 127.0.0.0/8
#mynetworks = $config_directory/mynetworks
#mynetworks = hash:/etc/postfix/network_table

#relay_domains = $mydestination

#relayhost = $mydomain
#relayhost = [gateway.my.domain]
#relayhost = [mailserver.isp.tld]
#relayhost = uucphost
#relayhost = [an.ip.add.ress]

#relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients

# INPUT RATE CONTROL
#in_flow_delay = 1s

#alias_maps = dbm:/etc/aliases
#alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
#alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases
#alias_maps = netinfo:/aliases

#alias_database = dbm:/etc/aliases
#alias_database = dbm:/etc/mail/aliases
#alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
#alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/opt/majordomo/aliases

#recipient_delimiter = +

#home_mailbox = Mailbox
#home_mailbox = Maildir/

#mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
#mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail

#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

#mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/file/name
#mailbox_transport = cyrus

#fallback_transport = lmtp:unix:/file/name
#fallback_transport = cyrus
#fallback_transport =

#luser_relay = [email protected]
#luser_relay = [email protected]
#luser_relay = admin+$local

#header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks

#fast_flush_domains = $relay_domains

#smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name
#smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version)

#local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
#default_destination_concurrency_limit = 20

debug_peer_level = 2

#debug_peer_list = 127.0.0.1
#debug_peer_list = some.domain

debugger_command =
	 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
	 xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix

mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix

setgid_group = postdrop

html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.3-documentation/html

manpage_directory = /usr/share/man

sample_directory = /etc/postfix

readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.3-documentation/readme
alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
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
inet_interfaces = all
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes

 

Looks ok so far. Please restart Postfix and try this

Code:

telnet localhost 25

thing again.

 

Code:

[root@median root]# postfix stop
postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
[root@median root]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com 
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME

 

Please run

Code:

updatedb
locate smtpd.conf

and post the output.

 

>>>>>

Code:

[root@median root]# updatedb
[root@median root]# locate smtpd.conf
/usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf

 

Hm... and what's the output of

Code:

locate sasl

?

 

Code:

locate sasl
/var/lock/subsys/saslauthd
/var/run/saslauthd
/var/run/saslauthd/mux.accept
/var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid
/var/run/saslauthd/mux
/var/run/saslauthd
/usr/sbin/sasldblistusers
/usr/sbin/saslauthd
/usr/sbin/sasldblistusers2
/usr/sbin/saslpasswd
/usr/sbin/saslpasswd2
/usr/sbin/testsaslauthd
/usr/sbin/sasl2-shared-mechlist
/usr/sbin/sasl2-static-mechlist
/usr/sbin/saslauthd1-checkpass
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/gssapi.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/README
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/programming.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/index.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/macosx.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/sysadmin.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/README.RPM
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/README
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/programming.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/advanced.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/appconvert.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/components.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/gssapi.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/index.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/install.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/macosx.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/mechanisms.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/options.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/plugprog.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/sysadmin.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/readme.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/upgrading.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/windows.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/1.5.28-devel
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/1.5.28-devel/rfc2095.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/1.5.28-devel/draft-newman-auth-scram-03.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/1.5.28-devel
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc1321.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-burdis-cat-srp-sasl-08.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-anon-02.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-crammd5-01.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-gssapi-00.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-plain-03.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-rfc2222bis-03.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-rfc2831bis-02.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-ietf-sasl-saslprep-04.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-murchison-sasl-login-00.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/draft-newman-sasl-c-api-01.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc1939.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2104.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2195.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2222.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2243.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2245.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2289.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2444.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2595.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2831.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc2945.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/rfc3174.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18/testing.txt
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_auxprop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_auxprop_getctx.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_authorize_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_server_userdb_checkpass_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_auxprop_request.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_callbacks.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_canon_user_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_chalprompt_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_checkapop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_checkpass.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_client_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_client_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_client_start.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_client_step.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_decode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_dispose.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_done.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_encode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_encodev.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_errdetail.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_errors.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_errstring.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getopt_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getpath_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getprop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getrealm_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getsecret_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getsimple_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_global_listmech.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_idle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_listmech.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_log_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_server_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_server_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_server_start.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_server_step.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_server_userdb_setpass_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_setpass.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_setprop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_user_exists.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_usererr.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/sasl_verifyfile_t.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ldap_parse_sasl_bind_result.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ldap_sasl_bind.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ldap_sasl_bind_s.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sasldblistusers.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/saslauthd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sasldblistusers2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/saslpasswd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/saslpasswd2.8.gz
/usr/bin/sasl-sample-client
/usr/bin/sasl-sample-server
/usr/bin/sasl2-sample-client
/usr/bin/sasl2-sample-server
/usr/include/sasl
/usr/include/sasl/hmac-md5.h
/usr/include/sasl/md5.h
/usr/include/sasl/md5global.h
/usr/include/sasl/prop.h
/usr/include/sasl/sasl.h
/usr/include/sasl/saslplug.h
/usr/include/sasl/saslutil.h
/usr/include/sasl
/usr/include/sasl.h
/usr/include/saslplug.h
/usr/include/saslutil.h
/usr/lib/sasl
/usr/lib/sasl/libanonymous.so.1
/usr/lib/sasl/libanonymous.la
/usr/lib/sasl/libanonymous.so
/usr/lib/sasl/libanonymous.so.1.0.17
/usr/lib/sasl/libcrammd5.la
/usr/lib/sasl/libcrammd5.so
/usr/lib/sasl/libcrammd5.so.1
/usr/lib/sasl/libcrammd5.so.1.0.19
/usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.la
/usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.so
/usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.so.0
/usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.so.0.0.20
/usr/lib/sasl/liblogin.la
/usr/lib/sasl/liblogin.so
/usr/lib/sasl/liblogin.so.0
/usr/lib/sasl/liblogin.so.0.0.7
/usr/lib/sasl/libplain.la
/usr/lib/sasl/libplain.so
/usr/lib/sasl/libplain.so.1
/usr/lib/sasl/libplain.so.1.0.16
/usr/lib/sasl/libgssapiv2.la
/usr/lib/sasl/libgssapiv2.so
/usr/lib/sasl/libgssapiv2.so.1
/usr/lib/sasl/libgssapiv2.so.1.0.19
/usr/lib/sasl/libanonymous.a
/usr/lib/sasl/libcrammd5.a
/usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.a
/usr/lib/sasl/libgssapiv2.a
/usr/lib/sasl/liblogin.a
/usr/lib/sasl/libplain.a
/usr/lib/sasl
/usr/lib/libsasl.so.7.1.11
/usr/lib/libsasl.so.7
/usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/libsasldb.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/libsasldb.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libsasldb.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libsasldb.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
/usr/lib/sasl2/libcrammd5.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/libcrammd5.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libcrammd5.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libcrammd5.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/libdigestmd5.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/libdigestmd5.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libdigestmd5.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libdigestmd5.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.la
/usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.so.2
/usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.so.2.0.18
/usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
/usr/lib/sasl2
/usr/lib/libsasl.a
/usr/lib/libsasl.la
/usr/lib/libsasl.so
/usr/lib/libsasl2.a
/usr/lib/libsasl2.la
/usr/lib/libsasl2.so
/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd_pre_mech
/etc/rc.d/init.d/saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K05saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K05saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S95saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S95saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc4.d/K05saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S95saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K05saslauthd
[root@median root]# locate sasl
/var/lock/subsys/saslauthd
/var/run/saslauthd
/var/run/saslauthd/mux.accept
/var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid
/var/run/saslauthd/mux
/var/run/saslauthd

continues...

 

continued...

Code:

/usr/sbin/sasldblistusers
/usr/sbin/saslauthd
/usr/sbin/sasldblistusers2
/usr/sbin/saslpasswd
/usr/sbin/saslpasswd2
/usr/sbin/testsaslauthd
/usr/sbin/sasl2-shared-mechlist
/usr/sbin/sasl2-static-mechlist
/usr/sbin/saslauthd1-checkpass
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/gssapi.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/README
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/programming.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/index.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/macosx.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28/sysadmin.html
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/1.5.28
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/README.RPM
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.18/AUTHORS
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/usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
/usr/lib/sasl2
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/usr/lib/libsasl2.a
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/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
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/etc/rc.d/init.d/saslauthd
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/etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K05saslauthd
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S95saslauthd
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/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S95saslauthd
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>>>>> end

 

You seem to have sasl and sasl2 installed at the same time. Can you run this:

Code:

mv /usr/lib/sasl /usr/lib/sasl_orig
ln -s /usr/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl

and then restart Postfix and try this telnet thing again?

 

Ok Falko - did that - results were:

Code:

[root@median root]# mv /usr/lib/sasl /usr/lib/sasl_orig
mv: overwrite `/usr/lib/sasl_orig/sasl'? y
[root@median root]# ln -s /usr/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl
[root@median root]# postfix stop
postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
[root@median root]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME

 

Ok. Did

Code:

shutdown -r now

and checked the logs.

/var/log/messages shows this:

Code:

Jan 28 11:37:10 median shutdown: shutting down for system reboot
Jan 28 11:37:13 median init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jan 28 11:37:14 median saslauthd[16949]: server_exit     : master exited: 16949
Jan 28 11:37:14 median saslauthd: saslauthd shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix: Shutting down postfix: 
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix: 
Jan 28 11:37:14 median rc: Stopping postfix:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median mysqld: Stopping MySQL:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median sshd(pam_unix)[23103]: session closed for user root
Jan 28 11:37:14 median xinetd[23805]: Exiting...
Jan 28 11:37:14 median xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median crond: crond shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median network: Shutting down interface venet0:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median rc: Starting killall:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median rc: Starting vzreboot:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median exiting on signal 15
Jan 28 11:37:33 median syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jan 28 11:37:33 median syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median syslog: klogd succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median sshd:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median xinetd[26475]: xinetd Version 2.3.13 started with libwrap loadavg options compiled in.
Jan 28 11:37:33 median xinetd[26475]: Started working: 2 available services
Jan 28 11:37:35 median mysqld: Starting MySQL:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:35 median dovecot: Fatal: listen(110) failed: Address already in use
Jan 28 11:37:35 median dovecot: dovecot startup failed
Jan 28 11:37:24 median sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median date: Sat Jan 28 11:37:24 GMT 2006 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sat Jan 28 11:37:24 GMT 2006 succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median rc.sysinit: Setting hostname median.v.servelocity.net:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:29 median rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:29 median rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:29 median rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:30 median rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median init: Entering runlevel: 3 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median iptables:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median iptables:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median network: Bringing up interface venet0:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median rc: Starting vzquota:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:36 median postfix:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:37 median httpd: httpd startup failed
Jan 28 11:37:37 median crond: crond startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:38 median saslauthd[26741]: detach_tty      : master pid is: 26741
Jan 28 11:37:38 median saslauthd[26741]: ipc_init        : listening on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
Jan 28 11:37:38 median saslauthd: saslauthd startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:38 median init: no more processes left in this runlevel
Jan 28 11:38:10 median sshd(pam_unix)[26838]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)

/var/log/mailog shows this:

Code:

Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix/master[24073]: terminating on signal 15
Jan 28 11:37:36 median postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jan 28 11:37:36 median postfix/master[26710]: daemon started -- version 2.2.3, configuration /etc/postfix
Jan 28 11:40:35 median postfix/smtpd[27292]: warning: smtpd_sasl_auth_enable is true, but SASL support is not compiled in

/var/log/boot.log shows:

Code:

Jan 28 11:32:09 median saslauthd: saslauthd[23731] :detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
Jan 28 11:32:09 median saslauthd: saslauthd[23731] :detach_tty      : Another instance of saslauthd is currently running
Jan 28 11:32:09 median saslauthd: saslauthd startup failed
Jan 28 11:32:34 median xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:32:35 median xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median saslauthd: saslauthd shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median sshd: sshd -TERM succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix: Shutting down postfix: 
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median postfix: 
Jan 28 11:37:14 median rc: Stopping postfix:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median mysqld: Stopping MySQL:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median xinetd: xinetd shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:14 median crond: crond shutdown succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median network: Shutting down interface venet0:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median network: Shutting down loopback interface:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median rc: Starting killall:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:15 median rc: Starting vzreboot:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median syslog: klogd succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median sshd:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:33 median xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:35 median mysqld: Starting MySQL:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:35 median dovecot: Fatal: listen(110) failed: Address already in use
Jan 28 11:37:35 median dovecot: dovecot startup failed
Jan 28 11:37:24 median sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median date: Sat Jan 28 11:37:24 GMT 2006 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sat Jan 28 11:37:24 GMT 2006 succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:24 median rc.sysinit: Setting hostname median.x.example.com:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:29 median rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:29 median rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:29 median rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:30 median rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median iptables:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median iptables:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 
Jan 28 11:37:32 median network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median network: Bringing up interface venet0:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:33 median rc: Starting vzquota:  succeeded 
Jan 28 11:37:36 median postfix:  succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:37 median httpd: httpd startup failed
Jan 28 11:37:37 median crond: crond startup succeeded
Jan 28 11:37:38 median saslauthd: saslauthd startup succeeded

Telnet and ehlo shows:

Code:

[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME
quit
221 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.

Hope this helps.

 

That's the explanation why it doesn't work for you. You don't seem to have the correct Postfix package installed.
What exactly did you do to install Postfix and saslauthd?

 

Code:

apt-get install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix dovecot

When I ran this it told me I already had latest version of cyrus*

How can I get rid of this problem please Falko?

The server is a vps. Would I need to get my hosting company to do a rebuild? Hoping i don't need to as they are very slow at doing things.

 

Ok. Just come across /etc/postfix/postfix.spec.sf which is as follows:

Code:

#
# This file contains the following information:
#
# - configuration options used to build the installed postfix rpm
#   - generated when the binary rpm was built
#
# - Postfix RPM build instructions
#   - for upgrading the installed rpm with the same options
#   - for building the rpm with other options
#
# 1. CONFIGURATION OPTIONS OF INSTALLED BINARY RPM
#
# Package built on: fedora-release-2-4 (fedora-2.0)

POSTFIX_ALT_PRIO=30
POSTFIX_CDB=0
POSTFIX_DB=4
POSTFIX_IPV6=0
POSTFIX_LDAP=0
POSTFIX_MYSQL=0
POSTFIX_MYSQL_PATHS=0
POSTFIX_MYSQL_REDHAT=0
POSTFIX_PCRE=0
POSTFIX_PGSQL=0
[COLOR="Red"]POSTFIX_SASL=0[/COLOR]
POSTFIX_SMTPD_MULTILINE_GREETING=1
POSTFIX_SPF=0
POSTFIX_TLS=1
POSTFIX_VDA=0

# export values to child processes
export POSTFIX_MYSQL POSTFIX_MYSQL_PATHS POSTFIX_MYSQL_REDHAT  POSTFIX_LDAP POSTFIX_PCRE POSTFIX_PGSQL  POSTFIX_SASL POSTFIX_SPF POSTFIX_TLS POSTFIX_IPV6 POSTFIX_VDA  POSTFIX_SMTPD_MULTILINE_GREETING POSTFIX_DB POSTFIX_INCLUDE_DB  POSTFIX_CDB POSTFIX_ALT_PRIO

# other options used in the build (but not explicitly changeable by the user) are:
# - debug=0
# - pcre_requires=pcre,
# - requires_zlib=0,
[COLOR="red"]# - sasl_library=cyrus-sasl-devel[/COLOR]
# - tlsfix=0
#
# /etc/postfix/makedefs.out is also produced by the build and may be of
# interest if you are building Postfix by hand.

The file date is back in June 2005 which is before I got the vps, so I'm guessing it's put there at build time.

Just guessing, but maybe

Code:

POSTFIX_SASL=0

is the reason postfix didn't install with sasl support?

If so, do I just change that to

Code:

POSTFIX_SASL=1

and uncomment

Code:

# - sasl_library=cyrus-sasl-devel

then re-install to get it to work as it should?

Really appreciate all your help. Thanks