direct admin not starting

[tamil14]

hi, today, suddenly sever didn't respond. directadmin also not responding.
later i went to ssh tried to restart DA. but i got follwing errors

[admin@moonload ~]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/directadmin start
Starting DirectAdmin:
touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/directadmin': Permission denied
[admin@moonload ~]$ touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/directadmin': Permission denied
>
[admin@moonload ~]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/directadmin restart
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/directadmin.pid': Permission deniedLED]

rm: cannot remove `/var/lock/subsys/directadmin': Permission denied
Starting DirectAdmin:
touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/directadmin': Permission denied
[admin@moonload ~]$
[admin@moonload ~]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/directadmin stop
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/directadmin.pid': Permission deniedLED]

rm: cannot remove `/var/lock/subsys/directadmin': Permission denied
[admin@moonload ~]$
[admin@moonload ~]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/directadmin reload
Reloading DirectAdmin config file: [FAILED]
[admin@moonload ~]$

would you please help me?
thanks

 

[HanSieT]

Arent u supposed to start as root?

Alternative u could reboot ur server DirectAdmin will restart with it