diff --git a/charts/maas/templates/bin/_ntpd.sh.tpl b/charts/maas/templates/bin/_ntpd.sh.tpl
index 35292a0..7590a47 100644
--- a/charts/maas/templates/bin/_ntpd.sh.tpl
+++ b/charts/maas/templates/bin/_ntpd.sh.tpl
@@ -2,6 +2,4 @@
 
 # This is a stub ntpd process that will simply do nothing
 
-while true; do
-  sleep 1000
-done
\ No newline at end of file
+exit 0