That could have been a result of me trying to "zmcontrol startup" more than once consecutive, since tomcat and the mta was not running.
Other services are, however
zimbra@group:/root$ zmcontrol status
Host group.xxx.net
antispam Running
antivirus Running
imapproxy Running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Stopped
tomcat is not running
mta Running
snmp Running
spell Running
zimbra@group:/root$ |