I resorted to some stracing and found that it looks like it's not
able to file /var/run/saslauthd/mux, however it's there and the
saslauthd is running
8652 read(12, "AUTH PLAIN xxxxxxxxxxx\r"..., 4096) = 33
8652 gettimeofday({1176464431, 158663}, NULL) = 0
8652 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 14
8652 connect(14, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/saslauthd/mux"},
110) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
8652 close(14) = 0
8652 time(NULL) = 1176464431
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 send(7, "<20>Apr 13 21:40:31 postfix/smtp"..., 140,
MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 140
8652 time(NULL) = 1176464431
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 send(7, "<20>Apr 13 21:40:31 postfix/smtp"..., 107,
MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 107
8652 time(NULL) = 1176464431
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=785, ...}) = 0
8652 send(7, "<20>Apr 13 21:40:31 postfix/smtp"..., 148,
MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 148
8652 time(NULL) = 1176464431
8652 select(13, NULL, [12], [12], {300, 0}) = 1 (out [12], left
{300, 0})
8652 write(12, "535 5.7.0 Error: authentication "..., 57) = 57
8652 gettimeofday({1176464431, 160965}, NULL) = 0
/var/run/saslauthd# ls -ltr
total 4
-rw------- 1 root root 5 2007-04-13 21:22 saslauthd.pid
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2007-04-13 21:22 mux.accept
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-04-13 21:22 mux
# ps -ef | egrep sasl
root 8160 1 0 21:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8161 8160 0 21:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8162 8160 0 21:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8163 8160 0 21:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
root 8164 8160 0 21:22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -
a pam
Going to do some more comparison on the old server, but thought this
might shed more light on the matter.
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