I keep getting in my secure log:

agetty[4159]: /dev/tty0: No such file or directory.

Can anyone tell me what this is and how to recitfy it? I am using Gentoo Linux.

Cheers.

I have also been getting:

postfix/smtpd[5609]: sql_select option missing
postfix/smtpd[5609]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
postfix/smtpd[5609]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql

and am not sure why I am getting this either. I am using Postfix + Courier IMAP/POP3 + Cyrus sasl + MySQL mail setup and it seems to functioning perfectly.

Any Ideas?

Cheers.

Yeah, your device node for tty0 is missing.

This probabaly means you can't login with lish, so you should probabaly fix it...

tty0 should be a character device node with major 4 and minor 0.

(man mknod for more info on how to create device nodes)

Here's what things look like on my (heavily modified) Slackware system.

root@overbeck:/dev# ls -al tty0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2006-02-08 00:21 tty0 -> vc/0
root@overbeck:/dev# ls -al vc/0
crwx-w----  1 root tty 4, 0 2006-02-20 21:09 vc/0
root@overbeck:/dev#

You might be able to get away with

mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0; chown root:tty /dev/tty0; chmod u+rwx,g=w,o-rwx /dev/tty0

depending on how your /dev directory is managed.

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--Bdragon

Is authentication for inbound smtp connections with mail destined for servers other than your Linode working? (You need this if you want to use postfix to accept mail for onward delivery beyond your Linode. 'Foreign' machines need to be authenticated to keep spammers from using your machine as a gateway [or you need to configure access for just your chosen hosts]. You might not have tested non-local delivery if you're not using it. Local delivery will work just fine, regardless of whether sasl is configured correctly or not.)

I'm guessing that non-local delivery is not working and that your smtpd.conf file, which configures the authentication mechanisms that postfix smtpd uses when other mail servers connect to send mail to non-local destinations, is incorrect, in the wrong directory or missing.

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/ Peter

My smtp.conf is in the right directory and is:

# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/mail-mta/postfix/files/smtp.sasl,v 1.2 2004/07/18 03:26:56 dragonheart Exp $

mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
pwcheck_method: saslauthd

Only authenticated users for my domain and any other hosted domains can send mail from this postfix instance. Local Delivery works also to my hostname, as this is how I block spam, and the rest of my mail is all virtual domains, and can send mail.

Does this mean that:

postfix/smtpd[5609]: sql_select option missing
postfix/smtpd[5609]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
postfix/smtpd[5609]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql

is being caused by people trying to authenticate to my server in some strange way? Or could it be something else mis configured? I don't know what would be mis configured because my mail system seems to be working fine.

Cheers.

Hi there,

Have you solved the issue?
I've got the same entries in my logfiles (suse 10.1_32+postfix+sasl with saslauthd(shadow)+TLS)

thanks,
Marcelo M. Lopes