service-0.5.26-alt1.x86_64 There some init-scripts for RHEL7.2 which invoke daemon() from /etc/init.d/functions-compat with --pidfile like this: start() { [ $UID -eq 0 ] || exit 4 [ -x $exec ] || exit 5 echo -n $"Starting $prog: " daemon --pidfile $pidfile $exec $OPTIONS RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile echo } Currently, ALT's package doesn't support this.
The same issue is described at https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31952 . *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 31952 ***