Created attachment 384418 [details, diff] Don't apply cgroup settings when running only status or describe cgroup settings are applied indiscriminately, regardless of runscript commands to be run
Also adds a nicer error message if cgroups are enabled but not writeable when a non root user does /etc/init.d/foo bar
I just now saw this, so I'll take a look at it tomorrow.
This is applied in commit 5065844 and will be part of OpenRC-0.14. Thanks for the report.