When I boot up ntpd is started and everything seems fine. When I shutdown and the init script is read for stopping ntpd error messages are given. I am running net-misc/ntp-4.2.0.20040617 tux ~ # /etc/init.d/ntpd start * Starting ntpd ... [ ok ] So everything is fine starting. tux ~ # /etc/init.d/ntpd stop * Stopping ntpd ... start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 10762: No such process 1 pids were not killed No process in pidfile `/var/run/ntpd.pid' found running; none killed. * Failed to stop ntpd And there's the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
make sure the process didnt kill itself ... `ps axu | grep ntp` after boot