/etc/init.d/redis is creating a second pid file as it differed from the default redis.conf path. Resulting in separate /run/redis/redis.pid and /run/redis.pid files are created by Redis and OpenRC. /etc/redis/redis.conf pidfile /run/redis/redis.pid redis.initd-6 pidfile="/run/${RC_SVCNAME}.pid" Systemd redis.service-4 appears correct, matching redis value. PIDFile=/run/redis/redis.pid Suggesting is to update redis.initd-7 as: pidfile="/run/${RC_SVCNAME}/${RC_SVCNAME}.pid" Cosmetic? This impacts all current version of redis in the tree. Thank you