Trouble Starting qmail

[Tony Campisi]

When I attempt to start qmail the following errors scroll continuously accross my 
screen.

multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail/smtpd: access deni
ed
multilog: fatal: unable to lock directory /var/log/qmail: access denied
supervise: fatal: unable to start qmail-smtpd/run: exec format error

I have followed LWQ to the best of my meager ability.
 Can someone please help this misguided soul?

TIA,
/tony.campisi