On Jun 6, Andrew Brown wrote:
>         if ( kill -0 `cat /var/run/xntpd.pid` 2>/dev/null ); ...
[snip]
> much cleaner...

Except that it fork()s to execute the stuff inside the
parenthesis. Try:

kill -0 `cat /var/run/xntpd.pid` && { ... }

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