status broken in 5.2

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

I don't have a RH 6 machine handy but on my 5.2 machines the 'status'
function in most or all of the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts is broken.  I just
did 'crond status' and got three PIDs but none of them are there later.  I
think the function in functions is broken; I guess it "finds" some
processes which don't exist, probably itself looking for crond.  

It's a minor annoyance but has anyone fixed it or know how to fix it?  Thanks.

-Alan
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