saslauthd on vds issues
I have a vds (virtual dedicated server) which runs postfix and uses saslauthd as the mechanism for SMTP Auth
I noticed that I couldn’t restart saslauthd via “/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart” for some reason.. the script would kill the PID of the parent saslauthd processes but the children would remain
It seemed that the children were locked in some state so reading the saslauthd –help output I noticed a -L option to disable accept() locking.. adding this to /etc/default/saslauthd did the trick.. flawless restarting of the daemon
Note to self: Markdown doesn’t support abbreviations 