Re: 2.1.27: problem with --sysconfdir and Sendmail

--On Thursday, April 25, 2019 1:15 AM +0400 Sergey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have a problem with Cyrus-SASL 2.1.27 release and Sendmail. Sendmail
> uses SASL's paths for find Sendmail.conf. It searchs configuration in
> "sysconfdir" and "plugindir". I build sasl with --sysconfdir=/etc/sasl2
> and --with-plugindir=/usr/lib/sasl2-3 (i586 version). Sendmail works
> with 2.1.26 and 2.1.27rc8. It starts with one error
>
> safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2-3/Sendmail.conf) failed: No such file or directory
>
> and finds Sendmail.conf in the directory /etc/sasl2. However, with 2.1.27
> release an extra directory "sasl2" is added and the file is not found:
>
> safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2-3/Sendmail.conf) failed: No such file or directory
> safesasl(/etc/sasl2/sasl2/Sendmail.conf) failed: No such file or directory
>
> Is this a bug or Is using of --sysconfdir was changed?

The behavior was changed.  If you look at 2.1.27's configure:

  configdir='${plugindir}:${sysconfdir}/sasl2'

There's even a new option to configure:

   --with-configdir=DIR    set the directory where config files will

I believe sysconfdir was never intended to be "/etc/sasl2", just "/etc".

The config dir is intended to be "/etc/sasl2" (or /usr/local/etc/sasl2, 
etc, depending on the prefix).

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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