Problem with saslauthd on debian

[brouanet]

Hi,

I use debian installer on fresh install, and I get this error when I restart saslauthd :

* No run directory defined for , cannot stop
* No run directory defined for , cannot start

saslauthd can't start, an idea ?

Here my /etc/default/saslauthd file

START=yes
MECHANISMS="pam"

Can you help me ?

[mayank]

It seems that your saslauthd is not able to create any pid / socket file during start/stop
check for pid file in "/var/run/saslauthd" !!!

Hi,

I use debian installer on fresh install, and I get this error when I restart saslauthd :

* No run directory defined for , cannot stop
* No run directory defined for , cannot start

saslauthd can't start, an idea ?

Here my /etc/default/saslauthd file

START=yes
MECHANISMS="pam"

Can you help me ?

[brouanet]

Hi,

ls -al /var/run/saslauthd/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sasl 4096 2007-10-15 08:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-15 08:59 ..

there is nothing in the directory.

[mayank]

I think here is the problem ..
That .pid file should exist for every daemon running ...
This is mine :

-rw------- 1 root root 0 2007-10-13 09:38 cache.flock
-rw------- 1 root root 945152 2007-10-13 09:38 cache.mmap
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-13 09:38 mux
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2007-10-13 09:38 mux.accept
-rw------- 1 root root 5 2007-10-13 09:38 saslauthd.pid

Hi,

ls -al /var/run/saslauthd/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sasl 4096 2007-10-15 08:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-15 08:59 ..

there is nothing in the directory.

[remy215]

Problem with saslauthd on debian

Hi,
I had the same problem.
It was because of a wrong value of OPTIONS in /etc/default/saslauthd.

With: OPTIONS="-r" I had the following error message: "saslauthd* No run directory defined for salsauthd, not starting" when running "/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart"

Correct value is: OPTIONS="-c -r -m /var/run/saslauthd"
Now saslauthd is restarting without any error.

Cheers,
Remy