Amavisd does not start

[Chris Jones]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mercredi 19 juillet 2006 à 21:08 +0100, Chris Jones a écrit :
>   
>> I have chosen to install amavis-new with my FC5 installation. This also 
>> loads clamav. However, when I look at the amavis service, I get the 
>> response "amavisd dead but subsys locked". I have checked everything I 
>> can think of, but cannot get amavisd to start. Does anyone here have any 
>> suggestions?
>>     
>
> 1. remove the dangling lock
> 2. start amavis
> 3. take a peek in /var/log/maillog
>   
I looked for the dangling lock. However, I can find nothing. I would 
expect to find it (with amavisd running) at /var/run/amavisd/ along with 
the pid file, but there is nothing. Where else should I look?