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ntp service in Maintenance mode Solaris 10

Hi, On one of our newly configured solaris 10 server, successfully configured a ntp client. But when trying to start ntp service its getting failed and going into maintance mode. Due to this there a 5 minutes of time difference between this server and other servers. bash-3.00$ svcs ntp maintenance 16:12:09 svc:/network/ntp:default When we check in detail: bash-3.00$ svcs -x ntp svc:/network/ntp:default (Network Time Protocol (NTP)) State: maintenance since Sun Jan 08 08:12:07 2012 Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 1. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS See: xntpd(1M) See: ntpdate(1M) See: ntpq(1M) See: /var/svc/log/network-ntp:default.log Impact: This service is not running. When we check logfile: [ Aug 11 13:11:15 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/xntp") ] /sbin/sh: /lib/svc/method/xntp: not found [ Aug 11 13:11:15 Method "start" exited with status 1 ] Stuck !!!!! Don't worry if you encounter same e...