Racker Hacker Words of wisdom from a server administrator

I recently came across a server that was throwing this error into its message log:
ntpd_initres[2619]: ntpd returns a permission denied error!
It would only appear about every five minutes on the server, and restarting ntpd didn’t correct the issue. I stopped ntpd entirely, but the error still appeared a few minutes later.
After examining the running [...]