[Techtalk] sendmail problem

[Philip J. Priest]

Andrew thanks for the help!  actually right after i emailed the list i saw
that libssl.so.1 was not a good link.

after correcting it sendmail came up fine.

-phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Wendt" <awendt at putergeek.com>
To: "Philip J. Priest" <phil at blkbox.com>; <techtalk at linuxchix.simegen.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] sendmail problem


> On August 29, 2001 10:34, Philip J. Priest wrote:
> > Got a redhat 7.1 server.  When i try to startup sendmail i get this
error:
> >
> [...]
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1:
> > cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > and in /usr/lib ive got this:
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       205154 May  2 16:20 libssl.so.0.9.6a
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Jun 20 12:08 libssl.so.1 ->
> > libssl.so.0.9.6
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Jul 13 08:53 libssl.so.2 ->
> > libssl.so.0.9.6a
> >
> > so libssl.so.1 is a symbolic link to libssl.so.0.9.6a.
> >
> > should there be a reason why sendmail wont startup?
>
> It looks to me like only libssl.so.2 is a symbolic link to
libssl.so.0.9.6a.
> The libssl.so.1 link is missing that "a" on the end, and is the one that
> Sendmail is asking for.
>
> If those are your only libssl files in that directory, I would try
deleting
> your libssl.so.1 symlink and creating a new one which points to
> libssl.so.0.9.6a, and see if that makes Sendmail happy.
>
> TTFN
> Andy
>
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