On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:56:12PM +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> I installed qmail as described in Dave Sills LWQ from the tarball on a
> SuSE Linux 6.4 machine.
> 
> After playing around quite a while qmail almost runs but I have one last
> problem:
> 
> when qmail starts I still get the following message:
> 
> Starting qmail: svscan.
> 
> 2 seconds later there comes the following message up repeatedly:
> 
> alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running
> alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running
> alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running
> 
> qmail seems to run, there are 5 qmail processes alive.
> What can I do to get rid of this message? Something is strange with this
> message because there was definitely no qmail process running before (ps
> -A|grep qmail).

What does your startup script look like? My guess is that it has an '&' at the
end of it. If it does, take it out.

Chris

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