Recipe Compile Error in /tmp/chef/cookbooks/postfix/recipes/sasl_auth.rb

[sous-chefs]

Recipe Compile Error in /tmp/chef/cookbooks/postfix/recipes/sasl_auth.rb

[svanharmelen]

That more of less makes sense if you ask me. As smtp_sasl_auth_enable also needs to end up with yes in your main.cf. And for that to happen you indeed need to set/override it to yes

[CloCkWeRX]

Let me put it another way, if you don't explicitly set smtp_sasl_auth_enable or set it to 'no'; what is the expected behaviour? Right now; the behaviour is You must supply a name when declaring a template resource and the recipe fails to cook.

[svanharmelen]

Well... Personally I don't see why you would want to include the sasl_auth recipe in a nodes runlist, while not having configured the accompanying attributes accordingly.

Of course there could (and maybe should) be a check/guard around the recipe that checks if you are trying to configure your postfix to use sasl auth (e.g. you have smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes in your main.cf by setting the attribute accordingly), and if not will skip the defined resources.

But still it wouldn't make much sense to call the sasl_auth recipe if you don't enable sasl auth for postfix in your main.cf... Then why run the recipe in the first place?

Or am I totally missing something here? Not a postfix guru, so maybe you know something I don't?

[billmoritz]

The following code in a wrapper cookbook will cause this error:

node.set['postfix']['main']['smtp_sasl_auth_enable'] = "yes"
include_recipe "postfix"

[chrissnell]

This bit me, too. The only way I could get it to compile is to set the node.postfix.sasl_password_file attribute in my wrapper cookbook:

default['postfix']['sasl_password_file'] = "#{node['postfix']['conf_dir']}/sasl_passwd"

This cookbook used to work in my old hosted chef repo. Not sure what's going on now.

[chasebolt]

ive done several testing and this issue looks to be resolved by commit 489bfaa, @CloCkWeRX please close this.

[tas50]

Closing this out since @chasebolt reports it has been fixed