The name of the service is getting garbled in the init script somehow
[root@vagrant-c5-x86_64 ~]# service riak ping
Node 'riak@127.0.0.1' not responding to pings.
[root@vagrant-c5-x86_64 ~]# service riak status
-l is stopped
[root@vagrant-c5-x86_64 ~]# /etc/init.d/riak status
-l is stopped
[root@vagrant-c5-x86_64 ~]# service riak start
Starting riak:
[ OK ]
[root@vagrant-c5-x86_64 ~]# service riak status
-l (pid 3839) is running...