Re: ntpd dead but pid file exists

From: "Shankar Jha" <shankar.jha@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:13:04 +0530

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@xxxxxxxxx>
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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