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

[Justin Hibbits]

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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libutil's version was bumped to 9 with the removal of utmp, so if you did a
make delete-old after your most recent upgrade you'll have lost
libutil.so.8.  Recompiling mail/ssmtp will make it link against the newer
library.