Sendmail fails to start with "error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8" error.

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Issue

  • Sendmail is unable to start due to shared libraries libcrypto.so.9.8.
  • Below error message appears on terminal.
# /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client:                                   [  OK  ]
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied
                                                           [FAILED]
Starting sm-client: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied
                                                           [FAILED]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • sendmail-8.14.4-8.el6.x86_64

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