From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Sat May 26 2007 - 21:44:00 CDT

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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:39:19PM -0700, Mark Edwards wrote:

> Updating from postfix 2.3.3 to postfix 2.3.8 on Ubuntu (that's the
> Edgy to Feisty update) I suddenly started getting warnings in the logs:
>
> May 25 15:37:41 mini postfix/smtpd[4735]: looking for plugins in '/
> usr/lib/sasl2', failed to open directory, error: No such file or
> directory
>
> Its clear that this is because certain processes are chrooted and
> the /var/spool/postfix directory doesn't contain any link to /usr/lib/
> sasl2. If I remove the chroots from master.cf the problem goes away,
> however I don't particularly like that solution. If I `ln -s /usr/
> lib/sasl2 /var/spool/postfix/usr/lib/` I get an error about too many
> levels of symbolic links.
>

Neither symbolic links, nor hard links (which work, but create security
issues) are the right answer. You must *copy* any required files into
the chroot jail.

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        Viktor.

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