I think I have figured this out - it appears to be with PAM. I have the imap modules - prior to any postings configured as optional instead of required. Since I change both lines to required, I have seen no failures with the exception of normal auth failures (bad or null password or a bad account id).
Thanks for all the replies...!! Vernon -------------------------------- Vernon A. Fort (Andy) Provident Solutions LLC. (615) 406-5540 http://www.provident-solutions.com >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-info- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Vernon A. Fort >>Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 1:04 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: Cyrus and mysql >> >>Thanks for the replies!!!! >> >> I can walk around cyrus/postfix and linux fairly well, but I'm new to >>mysql - a little quick direction on modifying the logging would help a >>great deal!! >> The server has ~8,500 email accounts of which ~3500 are active so at >>any one time there could be from 30 to 800 online. The auth errors are >>random. There are two perl scripts (with perl-DBI) running every 15 >>mins to provide automatic administration (adding accounts and altering >>the quotas). I thought these scripts were the issue but I disabled both >>for a day and still saw the errors - either only take ~60 seconds to >>run. >> >> I also have the following in the /etc/my.cnf file >> [mysqld] >> set-variable=max_connections=256 >> >> How can you tell the number of active connection or a history of >>active connections over a period of time? >> >> SO, I think it's with mysql or cyrus-imap or saslauthd. Can one of you >>tell me how to set the logging on mysql?!? >> >>Vernon >> >>-------------------------------- >>Vernon A. Fort (Andy) >>Provident Solutions LLC. >>(615) 406-5540 http://www.provident-solutions.com >> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Simon Loader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:49 AM >>>>To: Vernon A. Fort >>>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Subject: Re: Cyrus and mysql >>>> >>>>At 11:50 Tuesday 17/09/2002, Scott Russell wrote: >>>>>On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:59:17AM -0500, Vernon A. Fort wrote: >>>>> > Hello all, >>>>> > I am having issues with Cyrus-imap (2.1.5) and cyrus-sasl >>(2.1.5) >>>>> > using the pam_mysql (0.4.5). It is working well 'Most' of the >>time. >>>>> > Three to four times per day, we start having auth failures. I >>stop >>>>and >>>>> > start cyrus-imap - problem fixed. I'm not sure where to look, but >>>>here >>>>> > are >>>>> > my configs: >>>>> >>>>>Nothing obvious relating to this problem is listed. Have you looked >>at >>>>>the mysql error logs yet? Also I think PAM will log auth messags so >>>>>you can see what's going on. Try checking syslog.conf and turning up >>>>>the logging levels a bit. >>>> >>>>Just an idea , but have you checked the mysql server to see >>>>how many clients are connected , prehaps you are reaching a limit ?? >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Simon Loader
