Hi everyone, I am experiencing a problem mentioned many many times on various mailing lists (a google search turned up several), but I have not been able to find a resolution anywhere. I followed the instructions in the qmail HOWTO v2 (posted many places, one of which is http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html). When I start my computer (or manually start svscan or qmail) I get the error message: supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure I have found many people also had this problem, but I could not find any thread that solved it for me. It seems the common problems that were causing this symptom for other people included missing files and incorrect permissions. I'm pretty sure neither is the case for me. I installed using the .deb packages for qmail, uscpi-tcp, dot-forward, etc. from ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/Debian/potato/unofficial/binary-i386/ and then configured them as instructed in the howto linked above. Could any of you point me to a link describing how to fix this? Or perhaps walk me through the solution? Please cc: ben@hartshorne.net and ben@adax.com in any replies, I'm not on the qmail-help list (and ben@adax.com is not on debian-user). I feel like a bit of a dolt, because I just started at a new company and was extolling to them the virtues of debian and qmail, and I just spent an entire day trying to install just those two on one computer, and failed miserably. :( I'm cross posting this to debian-user because I am installing on debian and using (unofficial) .deb packages; perhaps one of you has run into this before. Final twist: I don't have access to the machine as I'm writing this mail, so can't give you folder listings etc. I can on monday. But I do remember most of them. (from memory) /services/ drwxr-xr-x qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send drwxr-xr-x qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smptpd drwxr-xr-t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run drwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/ -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail/send/log/run Thanks, -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
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