libz.so no found

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:13:43PM -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>> kv_bsd#cd /usr/ports/distfiles
>> kv_bsd#mv /usr/home/kayve/Nessus-3.2.0-fbsd7.tbz .
>> kv_bsd#pkg_add Nessus-3.2.0-fbsd7.tbz
>> pkg_add: package VisualOS-1.0.5_3 has no origin recorded
>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libz.so.4" not found, required by
>> "nessusd"
>
> First and foremost, you hijacked an existing thread by replying to it
> with regards to a completely different issue.  Please don't do this, it
> confuses mail clients which follow thread references.  Please don't hit
> reply on unrelated messages and start a new/unrelated discussion.

i don't know wtf you are talking about these are all my threads.

>
> Secondly, the missing library error shown above would happen on machines
> running FreeBSD 6.x or earlier.  /lib/libz.so.4 exists on RELENG_7.
>

i am still on freeBSD 6.3  is this a serious problem?

> Another possibility is that something completely destroyed ld.so's
> shared library cache path.  Of course, you'd be seeing all sorts of
> programs reporting missing libraries, and not just nexxus.
>

so running freeBSD 6.3 is a fatal problem, or just extraneously
irrelevant?

> If the startup script for nessus calls ldconfig or uses
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that could explain the missing library.
>
> -- 
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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> | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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