diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index acf9f939..1cc72723 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ ver. 0.8.1 (2007/??/??) - stable
 - Added "ignoreregex" support to fail2ban-regex
 - Updated suse-initd and added it to MANIFEST. Thanks to
   Christian Rauch
+- Tightening up the pid check in redhat-initd. Thanks to
+  David Nutter
 
 ver. 0.8.0 (2007/05/03) - stable
 ----------
diff --git a/files/redhat-initd b/files/redhat-initd
index 205294cf..529aef25 100755
--- a/files/redhat-initd
+++ b/files/redhat-initd
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ FAIL2BAN="/usr/bin/fail2ban-client"
 RETVAL=0
 
 getpid() {
-    pid=`ps -ef | grep fail2ban-|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`
+    pid=`ps -eo pid,comm | grep fail2ban- | awk '{ print $1 }'`
 }
 
 start() {