"libutil.so.8" not found, required by "sendmail"

[Rob Farmer]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Michael Proto <mike at jellydonut.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running current (r203336) with mail/ssmtp from ports installed
>> instead of sendmail. Whenever I try to send email, I get an error that
>> libutil.so.8 is not available.
>>
>> # periodic daily
>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.8" not found, required
>> by "sendmail"
>>
>> # ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail:
>>        libutil.so.8 => not found (0x0)
>>        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800646000)
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a problem with mailwrapper in the base system
>> or the ssmtp port - any pointers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Rob Farmer
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>
> Would appear to be a problem with your base system, as both
> mailwrapper and /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail both use libutil.so.8:
>
> minibsd8-dev:root/ # ldd /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper:
>        libutil.so.8 => /lib/libutil.so.8 (0x28083000)
>        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28090000)
>
> Try reinstalling libutil from /usr/src/lib/libutil perhaps?

The strange thing is that I have libutil.9 and I've tried rebuilding
ssmtp and world and nothing is working... I was just wondering if
other people were seeing similar problems or if there's something
messed up on my system. Would seem to be my system - I'll have to look
around a bit more :(

-- 
Rob Farmer

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