Inn not getting started!!!

[satpat]

I am running INn 2.3.3 on redhat 7.2.
While I am trying to use suck package to download the articles from internet based nntp servers I accidentely deletd the active file. Even after copying the active-old and running the perl script for the unwanted articles I am getting this error when I try to start the server:

innd.pid not found; did the server die???

pls resolve the same.


satish