dovecot - Feb 2004 - Start-up

Hi.
I dovecot RPM on RH9,Of course,I used RPM fro RH9,But
when i run "service dovecot start" 
I receiving a OK
But when i run "service dovecot status"
I receiving folloing line:
dovecot dead but subsys locked
& even when i run "ps -A |grep dovecot" ,i'm not
receiving anythings.
Please guide me.....
Yours,Mohsen.


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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:26:23AM -0800, Pahlevanzadeh Mohsen
wrote:
> But when i run "service dovecot status"
> I receiving folloing line:
> dovecot dead but subsys locked
You may have a stale dovecot lock file in /var/lock/subsys.

As to why dovecot may not be starting up, there should be
information in the log files providing clues (check
/var/log/maillog).