I think it is because of the read permission of the sasldb file.
My cyrus user is cyrus:mail, so
chgrp mail /etc/sasldb
and
chmod g+r /etc/sasldb
It's OK.
BTW: One can find the answer of his question from the archive.
I did so.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Krempe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: sasldb-error
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run cyrus 2.0.14 together with BerkeleyDB 3.2.9 and
> cyrus-sasl 1.5.
>
> I compiled:
>
> BerkeleyDB3.2.9:
> ./configure
>
> cyrus-imap:
> ./configure --disable-sieve --with-auth=unix
> --with-sasl=/usr/local/lib --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.2
>
> cyrus-sasl:
> ./configure --with-pwcheck=/var/pwcheck --with-pwcheck_method=shadow
>
> Compiling + installing seemed to be ok.
>
> /etc/imapd.conf look like
>
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> umask: 077
> admins: cyrus root
> srvtab: /var/imap/srvtab
> allowanonymouslogin: no
> postmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> sasl_passwd_check: shadow
>
> /usr/local/sbin/pwcheck is running, socket is /var/pwcheck/pwcheck
>
> After I start "master", I get an error message in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Jun 28 17:14:13 hal master[30997]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd
> Jun 28 17:14:13 hal service-imap[30997]: executed
> Jun 28 17:14:13 hal imapd[30997]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb: Invalid
>argument
>
> Any idea what's wrong here?
>
> Gru?Ch. Krempe
>
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