[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >/var/qmail/supervise: >total 8 >drwxrwxrwx 4 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 3 00:42 qmail-send >drwxrwxrwx 4 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 3 00:42 qmail-smtpd > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send: >total 12 >drwxrwxrwx 3 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 3 00:42 log >-rwxr-xr-x 1 qmaill nofiles 29 Jul 2 23:20 run >drwxrwxrwx 2 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 7 10:08 supervise > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log: >total 8 >-rwxr-xr-x 1 qmaill nofiles 88 Jul 5 21:51 run >drwxrwxrwx 2 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 5 21:55 supervise > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/supervise: >total 4 >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 control >-rwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 lock >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 ok >-rw-r--r-- 1 qmaill nofiles 18 Jul 5 21:55 status > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/supervise: >total 4 >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 6 11:55 control >-rwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 4 18:46 lock >-rwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 lock.old >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 ok >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Jul 7 10:08 status > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd: >total 12 >drwxrwxrwx 3 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 3 00:42 log >-rwxr-xr-x 1 qmaill nofiles 230 Jul 6 14:08 run >drwxrwxrwx 2 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 7 10:08 supervise > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log: >total 8 >-rwxr-xr-x 1 qmaill nofiles 94 Jul 5 21:52 run >drwxrwxrwx 2 qmaill nofiles 4096 Jul 5 21:55 supervise > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/supervise: >total 4 >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 control >-rwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 lock >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 ok >-rw-r--r-- 1 qmaill nofiles 18 Jul 5 21:55 status > >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/supervise: >total 4 >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 6 11:55 control >-rwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 lock >prwxrwxrwx 1 qmaill nofiles 0 Jul 3 00:42 ok >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Jul 7 10:08 status Owners/groups/modes are a mess, but I don't think that's your problem. Kill off all the processes, then do: rm -r /var/qmail/supervise/*/supervise rm -r /var/qmail/supervise/*/log/supervise chown -R root:qmail /var/qmail/supervise chmod -R go-w /var/qmail/supervise Then run "qmail start" again. Everything else looks OK. If that fails, post the output of: ps -ef|egrep 'qmail|supervise|sv|log' qmail stat Before you clean anything up. -Dave