SQL errors when not using SQL backend

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Aug 6 08:42:47 EDT 2004


Paul Boven wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm building the latest Cyrus (imapd 2.2.8, sasl 2.1.19) and packaging 
>  it for Solaris to distrubute to several different Cyrus servers.
> 
> For historic reasons we have quite a mix of authentication backends for 
> these servers: some with /etc/passwd (via saslauthd), or MySQL (via 
> sasl_sql_select) and now one with LDAP (Active Directory). If at all 
> possible I wuld like to use the same binary package on all these 
> servers, of course.
> 
> So my configure statement looks like this:
> 
> ./configure --with-perl=/bin/perl --with-sasl=/usr/local 
> --with-cyrus-prefix=/usr/local/cyrus --with-dbdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1
> 
> And SASL is configured like this:
> 
> ./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local --disable-krb4 --disable-gssapi 
> --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --without-pgsql --enable-sql 
> --with-ldap=/usr/local
> 
> For the server that gets it's authentication from AD, the imapd.conf is 
> below:
> 
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> allowplaintext: yes
> sieveusehomedir: false
> sievedir: /var/spool/sieve
> altnamespace: yes
> virtdomains: no
> hashimapspool: 1
> fulldirhash: 1
> createonpost: 1
> autocreatequota: -1
> 
> Works like a charm but every time someone connects I get the following 
> errors on my serial console:
> 
> imap[18190]: sql_select option missing
> imap[18190]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
> 
> The machine in question is not using SQL as a backend (though it has 
> been compiled in). Should these messages turn up at all in this case?

If the SQL plugin is installed, it will be initialized, and the 
initialization procedure checks for the sql_select option.  You can 
either remove the SQL plugin or just add a dummy sql_select option.

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