[SWLUG] SMTP Problems

[Jon Reynolds]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:20:25AM +0000, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Justin,
> > 
> > I believe my saslauthd is running:
> > 
> > -----------------------
> > jonr at jcrdevelopments:~$ ps -aux | grep sasl
> > Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> > http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
> > root      5772  0.0  0.0  53576   396 ?        Ss   Jan27   0:00
> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r
> > -n 5
> > root      5773  0.0  0.0  53576   132 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r
> > -n 5
> > root      5775  0.0  0.0  53576    28 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r
> > -n 5
> > root      5776  0.0  0.0  53576    28 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r
> > -n 5
> > root      5777  0.0  0.0  53576    28 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r
> > -n 5
> > ------------------------
> > 
> > Unless I am missing something?
> 
> 
> well the piece of your log i quoted was postfix not being able to talk
> to saslauthd, i expected the reason to be that it wasnt there.
> 
> 
> hrm  /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd  is a bit of a strange
> pathname...
> 
> i would investigate around that
> 
> 
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The funny path is only because I was following the tutorial and that's
what it said to do (not knowing any better). It worked at first, but
then dropped out.

Jon