diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index b6f79b54..18a11609 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -70,3 +70,4 @@ man/fail2ban-regex.1
 man/fail2ban-regex.h2m
 man/generate-man
 files/gentoo-initd
+files/redhat-initd
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7afd0717..4e4a3c8f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Thanks:
 Kévin Drapel, Marvin Rouge, Sireyessire, Robert Edeker,
 Tom Pike, Iain Lea, Andrey G. Grozin, Yaroslav Halchenko,
 Jonathan Kamens, Stephen Gildea, Markus Hoffmann, Mark
-Edgington, Patrick Börjesson, kojiro, zugeschmiert
+Edgington, Patrick Börjesson, kojiro, zugeschmiert, Tyler
 
 License:
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diff --git a/files/redhat-initd b/files/redhat-initd
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0dfd0d2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/files/redhat-initd
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# chkconfig: 345 92 08
+# description: Fail2ban daemon
+#              http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
+# process name: fail2ban-server
+#
+#
+# Author: Tyler Owen
+#
+
+# Source function library.
+. /etc/init.d/functions
+
+# Check that the config file exists
+[ -f /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf ] || exit 0
+
+FAIL2BAN="/usr/bin/fail2ban-client"
+
+RETVAL=0
+
+getpid() {
+        #pid=`ps -ef | grep fail2ban-|grep -v grep|grep -v bash|awk '{print $2}'`
+        pid=`ps -ef | grep fail2ban-|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`
+}
+
+start() {
+    echo -n $"Starting fail2ban: "
+    getpid
+    if [ -z "$pid"]; then
+        $FAIL2BAN start > /dev/null
+        RETVAL=$?
+    fi
+    if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
+        touch /var/lock/subsys/fail2ban
+        echo_success
+    else
+        echo_failure
+    fi
+    echo
+    return $RETVAL
+}
+
+stop() {
+    echo -n $"Stopping fail2ban: "
+    getpid
+    RETVAL=$?
+    if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
+        $FAIL2BAN stop > /dev/null
+    fi
+    getpid
+    if [ -z "$pid" ]; then
+        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/fail2ban
+        echo_success
+    else
+        echo_failure
+    fi
+    echo
+    return $RETVAL
+}
+
+# See how we were called.
+case "$1" in
+  start)
+        start
+        ;;
+  stop)
+        stop
+        ;;
+  status)
+        getpid
+        if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
+                echo "Fail2ban (pid $pid) is running..."
+        else
+                RETVAL=1
+                echo "Fail2ban is stopped"
+        fi
+        ;;
+  restart)
+        start
+        stop
+        ;;
+  *)
+        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+esac
+
+exit $RETVAL