ntpd dead but pid file exists

[Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues]

I think its only the pid file, no process is running, there is not to kill.

I am not sure about the location of the file, but check the
/var/run/ntpd.pid, it happens because the process was killed but the pid
file was not removed.


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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Shankar Jha <shankar.jha at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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