when i start qmail seervice it gives error


#/etc/init.d/qmail start

Starting qmail-toaster: svscansupervise: fatal: unable to acquire pop3/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire pop3-ssl/supervise/lock: temporary failure

Do you have 2 instances of svscan running?
BTW, are the other threads solved?
If yes mark them solved or give a followup.

Kind regards

no my other threds are still not solved.when it get solved i will closed it.

ans BTW how i will svscan running?
i thinks i didnot have svscan.i had clamav

Svscan isn't an antivirus.
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html
http://woodsheep.jp/qmail-conf/delivery.html
http://woodsheep.jp/qmail-conf/smtp.html

Kind regards

did any linux guru can solve my problem

Did you looked if you have 2 instances of svscan running, as suggested?

Kind regards

i dont know how to check.can u pls guide me how to find it

Hi,

I'm not a guru.. anyway take a look to this similar post http://www.mail-archive.com/qmailtoa.../msg03485.html

you should have priviledges problems..

I hope it helped

regards
Roberto

thanks robert for providing link.
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well this error occur rarely.when i run it again now it runs sucessfully

# /etc/init.d/qmail stat
authlib: up (pid 2617) 103810 seconds
clamd: up (pid 2631) 103810 seconds
imap4: up (pid 2627) 103810 seconds
imap4-ssl: up (pid 2629) 103810 seconds
pop3: up (pid 2614) 103810 seconds
pop3-ssl: up (pid 2616) 103810 seconds
send: up (pid 2624) 103810 seconds
smtp: up (pid 2630) 103810 seconds
spamd: up (pid 2628) 103810 seconds
submission: up (pid 2613) 103810 seconds
authlib/log: up (pid 2619) 103810 seconds
clamd/log: up (pid 2626) 103810 seconds
imap4/log: up (pid 2621) 103810 seconds
imap4-ssl/log: up (pid 2625) 103810 seconds
pop3/log: up (pid 2612) 103810 seconds
pop3-ssl/log: up (pid 2618) 103810 seconds
send/log: up (pid 2623) 103810 seconds
smtp/log: up (pid 2620) 103810 seconds
spamd/log: up (pid 2622) 103810 seconds
submission/log: up (pid 2615) 103810 seconds


#/etc/init.d/qmail restart
Restarting qmail:
* Stopping qmail-smtpd.
* Sending qmail-send SIGTERM and restarting.
* Restarting qmail-smtpd.


but when i start the service it give error

# /etc/init.d/qmail start
Starting qmail-toaster: svscan.
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire clamd/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure

i cant understand what is going on....

Did you first stopped the service?
Do you have 2 instances of svscan running?

Kind regards