The 'status' function in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
sometimes finds its own 'grep' in the process table, and
reports that a process is running when it in fact isn't.

Changing line 130 from
pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | awk '{print $2}'`

 to

pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | grep -v grep | awk '{print
$2}'`

serves as a temporary workaround here, but isn't ideal.