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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:19:05 +0100
From:      Dominik Epple <epple@tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To:        Arshkit Dullat <arshkit@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail authentication relay
Message-ID:  <20050315111905.GA1094@pion05.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050311192131.72833.qmail@web52403.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050311192131.72833.qmail@web52403.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:21:31AM -0800, Arshkit Dullat wrote:
> /configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
> --enable-login
> 
> and then "make" and "make install"

Why don't you use the ports collection? Should make your life easier.

> I tried to run the SASL Authentication Daemon :
> using the following command :
> 
> saslauthd -a shadow

Are you sure this is what you want? Not perhaps -a pam?

> but I get this message ;
> 
> [root@safari sasl2]# saslauthd -a shadow
> saslauthd[10615] :main            : could not chdir
> to: /var/state/saslauthd
> saslauthd[10615] :main            : chdir: No such
> file or directory
> saslauthd[10615] :main            : Check to make sure
> the directory exists and is
> saslauthd[10615] :main            : writeable by the
> user this process runs as.

So just create the directory and see what happens?

I guess using the ports collection and doing something like
'/usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd start' (dont know the correct path
by heart and cannot check it atm since my FreeBSD box is at home)
will get your nearer to your goal.
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