Re: Amavisd silently dies at startup

Patrick Proniewski via amavis-users <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:40:25 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.virus.amavis.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 24 Feb 2026, at 15:25, Xavier Humbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> Did you reinstall everything depending on Perl (pkg query %ro perl5), =
including huge ports like llvm (!!), or just like I did, dependencies on =
libperl.so.42


I=E2=80=99ve removed Perl, so everything depending on Perl got deleted. =
Then I=E2=80=99ve reinstalled what I need (Amavisd-new, Sympa, opendkim, =
etc.) that was removed because it depends on Perl.

I=E2=80=99m using pkg with =C2=ABlatest=C2=BB, I stopped using ports =
about a decade ago, apart from very specific exceptions.=20

$ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf =20
FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  enabled: yes
}


Patrick=