Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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). Better use the most commonly used public documentation http://www.lifewithqmail.org . > 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= [...] This looks like You have multiple instances of svscan run, You must have done something wrong. > 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. This apt-source also includes a qmail-run package that sets up qmail as default MTA on Debian GNU/Linux, just do # apt-get install qmail-run (undo the changes proposed by the howto first and read lwq) On woody this package follows Life with qmail almost completely, see http://innominate.org/~pape/Debian/qmail/qmail-run.html . Regards, Gerrit.
