I just finished installing SASL2 on my server to allow me to use SMTP
remotely, using the following method:
http://www.defcon1.org/html/postfix.html
I'm getting the message that I've pasted on the bottom of the page
kicking to me on a regular basis from Cron. It looks like it's being
generated by the following Cron command line:
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
The target directory in the e-mail message exists:
mail# cd /var/state
mail# ls -ls
total 2
drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 512 Apr 6 12:44 saslauthd
The process appears to be running under root:
mail# ps -aux | grep saslauthd
root 24890 0.0 0.4 2808 1612 ?? Is Mon12PM 0:00.00 saslauthd -a pam
root 24891 0.0 0.4 2808 1612 ?? I Mon12PM 0:00.00 saslauthd -a pam
I changed the ownership of the saslauthd directory to root and wheel
from cyrus and mail with no effect.
Question, is this a permissions problem or is it a problem with my
installation of SASL2?
E-Mail Message:
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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:33:00 GMT
From: opera...@mail.mydomain.com (Cron Daemon)
To: opera...@mail.mydomain.com
Subject: Cron <opera...@mail> /usr/libexec/save-entropy
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=operator>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=operator>
saslauthd[33478] :main : could not chdir to: /var/state/saslauthd
saslauthd[33478] :main : chdir: Permission denied
saslauthd[33478] :main : Check to make sure the directory
exists and is
saslauthd[33478] :main : writeable by the user this
process runs as.
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