Peter Janett wrote:

> I have been installing Qmail on a new Solaris box.  I have gone through the

Solaris 7? or 8?
What C compiler?
Show me your PATH.

I was able to make it to work on 7 but not on 8.

>
> install instructions at:
> http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation
>
> I installed the startup script located at:
> http://Web.InfoAve.net/~dsill/qmail-script-dt61.txt
>
> Things seemed to be going fine until I tried to start qmail with:
> /usr/local/sbin/qmail start
>
> I get the following every few seconds, over and over, until I kill the
> svscan ID:
>
> supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/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 checked the archives, and found a few similar errors, but they said
> "permission denied" where I am getting "temporary failure".
>
> Any help GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter Janett
>
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