If the status information tells you that the service is running, but you know that it is not, then you can reset the status information
to "stopped" with the zap argument
Helpful when and if Tron gets into a confused state about a service; just zap it and then manually kill off the workers.
Taken from the Gentoo standard init scripts:
Helpful when and if Tron gets into a confused state about a service; just zap it and then manually kill off the workers.