On my system, I see:
Code:
$ ls -al /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl/state/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Jan 16 15:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root zimbra 4096 Jan 16 15:43 ..
srwxrwxrwx 1 zimbra zimbra 0 Jan 16 15:49 mux
-rw------- 1 zimbra zimbra 0 Jan 16 15:49 mux.accept
-rw------- 1 zimbra zimbra 6 Jan 16 15:49 saslauthd.pid
What do you have?