Unable to start saslauthd on CentOs4.4

[davdunc]

I am unable to start the MTA on my mail store.
I am receiving the following error:
saslauthd[20007] :set_auth_mech : failed to initialize mechanism zimbra
zmsaslauthdctl failed to start
I am running zimbra 4.0.5 on CentOs 4.4.
A reinstall failed to give me any better results.

It looks like a proplem with Cyrus-sasl to me, but I am hoping that there is an easy fix.
Any suggestions on where to start the troubleshooting?

[zimbra@zimbra sbin]$ ldd /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21.ZIMBRA/sbin/saslauthd libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x0056a000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x009b5000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x009d7000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x0024c000)
libcurl.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3 (0x00486000)
libssl.so.4 => /lib/libssl.so.4 (0x00ca8000)
libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x00ae5000)
libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00ac5000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00bf3000)
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x009c7000)
libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00bd0000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00a1b000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x009af000)
libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0x00454000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x009eb000)
libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x00111000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0085e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00845000)
libaudit.so.0 => /lib/libaudit.so.0 (0x00c98000)


I do have the following rpm's installed, but did not check to see if this is a part of the install -
cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.19-5.EL4
cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.19-5.EL4
cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4

should they be removed or are they necessary?

[jholder]

Hi,
I'm sorry you're having trouble.

I wanted to let you know that I've forwarded this issue on to one of the developers for review and you should receive a response soon.

Thanks
john

[davdunc]

I have compared with another installation and found that the sasl is correct.
I am stll unable to resolve the auth mechanism "zimbra"

[davdunc]

Yea. I cannot run the mta at this time. I have two MTA boxes set up. The network is configured with a mailstore behind a firewall (this is the one I have the problem with) and a second mta configured outside the firewall. Mail is configured for delivery by the outside Zimbra. The internal Web mail is handled by the primary mail store.

[marcmac]

You've almost certainly got an empty value in the url setting in the saslauthd.conf file.

[davdunc]

/opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21.ZIMBRA/etc/saslauthd.conf shows the following:

zimbra_url:
zimbra_cert_file: /opt/zimbra/conf/smtpd.crt
zimbra_cert_check: off

Should I change the %%zimbraMtaAuthURL%% in the saslauthd.conf.in to something specific? Something like https://localhost/service/soap ? ?