Problem starting the service!! supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure

[Hatem]

Hi, I have just followed the instructions in "Life with qmail" and got stuck in the following : 2.8.5. Start qmail Finally, you can start qmail: /usr/local/sbin/qmail start And guess what!! it gave me the following errors: supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire lqmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire lqmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure : : and keeps going and going ...   Can some one help me out here !!!   is it permission problem? a missing directory? what!!   Thanks in advance!   Hatem