ntpd dead but pid file exists
Issue
- We sometimes notice that the ntp service is not running:
[root@server ~]# service ntpd status
ntpd dead but pid file exists
- Why was it not running?
- Why is my clock not synced up after reboots when the system comes up?
- After the server was powered back on, and the ntpd process existed but was dead, and there was a time offset of 18000 seconds.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- ntpd
- ntpdate
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