turns out, creating the pid file causes issues

system/init.d/kazoo-kamailio.redhat

@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ start() {
 	/usr/sbin/kazoo-kamailio prepare >/dev/null 2>&1
 	daemon --pidfile ${PID_FILE} "/usr/sbin/kazoo-kamailio start >/dev/null 2>&1"
 	RETVAL=$?
-		if [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ]; then
-			touch ${LOCK_FILE}
-			success $"OK"
-			echo
-		else
-			failure $"Kamailio is already running or failed to start!"
-			echo
-		fi
+	if [ ${RETVAL} -eq 0 ]; then
+		touch ${LOCK_FILE}
+		success $"OK"
+		echo
+	else
+		failure $"Kamailio is already running or failed to start!"
+		echo
+	fi
 }
 
 stop() {

system/sbin/kazoo-applications

@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ prepare() {
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/log/kazoo
 	mkdir -p /var/run/kazoo
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/kazoo
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE}
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi
 }
 
 start() {

system/sbin/kazoo-bigcouch

@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ prepare() {
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/log/bigcouch
 	mkdir -p /var/run/bigcouch
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/bigcouch
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE} 
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi 
 }
 
 start() {

system/sbin/kazoo-ecallmgr

@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ prepare() {
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/log/kazoo
 	mkdir -p /var/run/kazoo
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/kazoo
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE}
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi
 }
 
 start() {

system/sbin/kazoo-freeswitch

@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ prepare() {
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/lib/kazoo-freeswitch
 	mkdir -p /var/run/freeswitch
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/freeswitch
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE} 	
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi	
 }
 
 start() {

system/sbin/kazoo-haproxy

@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ prepare() {
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/log/haproxy
 	mkdir -p /var/run/haproxy
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/haproxy
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE}
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi
 }
 
 start() {

system/sbin/kazoo-kamailio

@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ fi
 prepare() {
 	mkdir -p /var/run/kamailio
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/kamailio
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE}
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi
 }
 
 start() {
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ start() {
 	RETVAL=$?
 	
 	if [ ${RETVAL} -ne 0 ]; then
-		echo "Failed to start BigCouch!"
+		echo "Failed to start Kamailio!"
 		RETVAL=1
 	fi
 }

system/sbin/kazoo-rabbitmq

@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ prepare() {
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/log/rabbitmq
 	mkdir -p /var/run/rabbitmq
 	chown -R ${USER} /var/run/rabbitmq
-	touch ${PID_FILE}
-	chown ${USER} ${PID_FILE}
+	if [ -e ${PID_FILE} ]; then
+		rm -rf ${PID_FILE}
+	fi
 }
 
 start() {