> So I'm a newbie with qmail and redhat in general, and I just installed
> qmail. My problem is when I run the command "service qmail start" I
> get this message:
> Starting qmail-toaster: svscansupervise: fatal: unable to acquire
> log/supervise/lock: temporary failure
> .
> log/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 log/supervise/lock: temporary
> failure
> supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary
> failure
> Does anyone know what the deal is here?
What's in your /service directory? I don't know how the rpms work, but
I built my qmail/daemontools/ucspi-tcp from source. svscan and
supervise are two different processes, but your output above looks a
little funny.
supervise launches a process in a directory, with an optional log
subprocess. svc controls those processes and can send them signals or
bring them up or down.
I'm guessing "service" is an init script? That may be an rpm thing.
Trace these things backwards to see where they are. svc takes the
directory of the command to run as an argument, as in:
svc -u /services/qmail-smtpd
If "supervise" isn't being started in the right place, it might croak
with errors like you're describing.
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