[gentoo-user] Service marked as crashed, but it is running?

[gentoo-user] Service marked as crashed, but it is running?

[Daniel Frey]

I have this strange issue.

I install lcdproc to drive a VFD in my HTPC case.

So I set it up and started it (it is working.)

However:

# rc-status | grep LCDd
  LCDd                                                 [  crashed  ]

But it is actually running (and the display is working):
# ps aux | grep LCDd
nobody    9353  0.0  0.1   2616  2104 ?        Ss   20:30   0:00 
/usr/sbin/LCDd -c /etc/LCDd.conf

I did notice that there is nothing under /run, which is likely tripping 
up openrc (as in: no pid file for LCDd.)

All that is in /etc/init.d/LCDd is:
---
instance="${SVCNAME}"
name="LCDProc (${instance})"
pidfile="/run/${instance}.pid"

command="/usr/sbin/LCDd"
command_args="-c /etc/${instance}.conf"

depend() {
         use g15daemon
         use net
}
---

There is no entry in /etc/conf.d/ for LCDd, does it require one? More 
curiously, it refers to an instance in the init.d file but I do not know 
where it is pulling this information from. Does it require a symlink 
(thinking something like net.lo -> net.eth0 as an example)?

Hopefully someone knows what it is trying to do and can point me in the 
right direction.

Dan