ntpd dead but pid file exists

[Shankar Jha]

Hi,

First find the pid and kill them.
Sometimes the pid still exixting, while the services is not running.

Thanks-
Shankar

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:05 AM, unix syzadmin <unixsyzadmin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see this error in a couple of redhat server.
>
> # more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
>
> # uname -a
> Linux narheapp017.nielsenmedia.com 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL #1 Tue Jun 12 17:47:10
> EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # service ntpd status
> ntpd dead but pid file exists
>
> What could have caused this situation?
>
> Please suggest.
> Thanks.
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