> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:23:14 -0500, Dan White <dwhite@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I checked an older Debian install I have and smtpd is chrooted out of > the >> box. >> >> Check your /etc/postfix/master.cf entry for smtpd: >> >> # >> > ========================================================================== >> # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args >> # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100) >> # >> > ========================================================================== >> smtp inet n - - - - smtpd >> >> To troubleshoot, mark all your services as non chrooted temporarily, or > you >> could modify your /etc/init.d/postfix script, underneath: >> >> # see if anything is running chrooted. >> >> and copy the contents of /usr/lib/sasl2 into the chroot. > > Ugh !!! > Thanks ! once again, I've been to hasty to answer. I completely forgot > about this behavior, it's so rare to have chrooted daemons by default... The postfix author recommends these days to not use chroot and so does the postfix in a default configuration. IIRC the debian packages do chroot which often results in some kind of problems with advanced configurations. Simon