lock file error's

[Philip Priest]

running qmail 1.03 on redhat 6.2.

im getting these lock file errors:

supervise fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure
supervise fatal: unable to acquire qmail/send/supervise/lock: temporary
failure
supervise fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary
failure

any pointers as to why this is occuring?   did i miss a step in the
install??

phil