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. > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list