Bug#1110309: sasl2-bin: changing the path is service file is not enough when postfix is in chroot

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 20:12:48 +0530 Pirate Praveen <prav...@debian.org> wrote:

2026-03-01T06:38:13.306321-08:00 comms-staging postfix/submission
/smtpd[2102]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connec
t to saslauthd server: No such file or directory

Is the path hard coded in postfix? I did restart both postfix and saslauthd? How do we tell postfix to look in /var/spool/postfix/run/saslauthd ?

This works after symlinking var/run to run inside the chroot.

root@comms-staging:/var/spool/postfix/var# ln -s ../run .

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