On 13 Dec 2017, at 13:31, <k.abdalla@q-ab.com> <k.abdalla@q-ab.com> wrote:

Hi all ,
 
It’s my first time  running BIRD instance and when I tried to run bird –c myfile.conf it gave below error :
“bird: I found another BIRD running”
 
Your help is much appreciated 
 
Thanks 

Looks like bird is already running on your system.