Q. I’m running Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.5 server along with Postfix and Cyrus mail server. However I’m getting following error in my log files:
Jun 10 18:00:04 server postfix/smtpd[7280]: sql_select option missing
Jun 10 18:00:04 server postfix/smtpd[7280]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
How do I fix this error? I’m not using mysql for postfix.
A. The cyrus software comes with various plugin. The cyrus-sasl-sql package contains the Cyrus SASL plugin which supports using a RDBMS for storing shared secrets.
If you are not using MySQL, just remove the plugin using rpm command:
# rpm -ev cyrus-sasl-sql
Note if you are using Debian or Ubuntu remove libsasl2-modules-sql package:
# apt-get remove libsasl2-modules-sql
Also on RHEL 3 / 4, make sure that file /etc/openldap/slapd.conf is owned by the user ldap:
# chown ldap.ldap /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
Other option is to configure the sql module. Now there should not be any sort of error in /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog file.
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this solved my problem. Thanx
seems this put out those ugly lines from my server logs. thank you.
Thanks.
I am getting somehow a similar problem. The difference is that I am using mysql with
cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-14 and cyrus-sasl-sql-2.1.19-14 with rhel 4
postfix/smtpd[5425]: sql_select option missing
postfix/smtpd[5425]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
and what if i’m using mysql plugin?