It seems our rc.d initscripts could be more standardized than they are currently. Each daemon possibly uses a different kill style... kill/killall and uses the pid from pidof or sometimes from the file kept in /var/run/. Other distros use a killproc function that handles retrying the kill if first attempt fails, as well as sleeping for only the required amount of time (we use arbitrarily high values now, and sometimes that even fails).

here is the functions file from CentOS that contains this killproc bash function I speak of:

EDIT: File is now attached instead.

Suggestions?