/service/qmail-send: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

This is for reference purposes for those who get the error:

# qmailctl start

qmail-send supervise not running

qmail-smtpd supervise not running

Though the solution for me was simple, it took quite a while to track down.

The problem was during my install of daemontools, I did not want to restart my server (don't like resetting my uptime :-p ), even though the instructions said I should. This caused the problem that 'svscanboot' was not running, though it would have been started after a reboot. Well, I saved my uptime and solved the problem with one simple command:

# svscanboot &

Now when I start and stop qmail I get:

# qmailctl start

Starting qmail

# qmailctl stop

Stopping qmail...

qmail-smtpd

qmail-send