HP-UX 11i Version 1 Installation and Update Guide, June 2004

Known Problems and Troubleshooting
Known Problems Discovered in this Release
Appendix B164
Additionally, you might find a similar message in your rc.log file:
Start time synchronization
Output from ‘/sbin/rc2.d/S660xntpd start’:
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23 Sep 14:46:23 ntpdate[1810]: the NTP socket is in use,
exiting xntpd
What To Do To resolve this problem:
Step 1. Stop xntpd:
/sbin/init.d/xntpd stop
Step 2. Verify xntpd is down:
ps -ef | grep xntpd
Step 3. Start xntpd
/sbin/init.d/xntpd start