Am Dienstag 15 Juni 2010 schrieb Sebastian Harl:
> Hi Martin,

Hi Sebastian!

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:01:23PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > collectd does not load notify_email plugin although it is there:
> > 
> > shambhala:~> /etc/init.d/collectd start
> > Starting statistics collection and monitoring daemon:
> > collectdlt_dlopen (/usr/lib/collectd/notify_email.so) failed: file
> > not found Unable to load plugin notify_email.
> 
> Do you have libesmtp5 installed? See /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/
> README.Debian.plugins for details.

No, I didn't. I usually do install recommends on an as needed basis.

Installed it and collectd now loads the plugin. A clear case of RTFM then.

Thanks.

> Unfortunately, the error message provided by (lt_)dlopen() is not very
> descriptive in case of missing plugin dependencies. I'll see if that
> can be improved somehow.

Shall we close the bug report or retitle it as something like "make the 
error message when  notify_email can not be started more descriptive"? 
Well maybe its better when I open a upstream bug report about this and we 
close this one. What do you think?

Ciao,
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