SQL errors when not using SQL backend

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Aug 6 09:38:35 EDT 2004


Paul Boven wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>> Paul Boven wrote:
> 
> 
>>> 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.
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> I appended 'sasl_sql_select: dummy' to the imapd.conf, but now I get:
> 
> mozilla imap[9865]: sql plugin could not connect to host
> mozilla imap[9865]: sql plugin couldn't connect to any host
> mozilla imap[9865]: sql plugin could not connect to host
> mozilla imap[9865]: sql plugin couldn't connect to any host
> 
> Would it be a good idea to remove the sql-plugin from /usr/sasl2/lib or 
> is it perhaps possible to explicitly disable it by setting 
> sasl_auxprop_plugin?

The first option will definitely work, the second option should work.

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