When some of the programs at /etc/rc.d/init.d/ are called with the 'status' parameter, sometimes they report an output like this: $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status sendmail (pid 1378 2011 2012) is running... This is due to a bug in the 'status' function. The next patch I submit removes this minor bug. BTW I hope you release a new version of Red Hat Linux soon (I too use 2.2.1). 130c130 < pid=`ps auxww | grep '[^[]'$1 | awk '{print $2}'` --- > pid=`ps auxww | grep '[ ]'$1 | awk '{print $2}'` 132c132,134 < echo "$1 (pid $pid) is running..." --- > echo -n "$1 (pid " > echo -n $pid > echo ") is running..."
this is fixed in a later initscripts package.