[CentOS] checkproc

greetings,
trying to install netapplet (http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/netapplet/) 
from source on a centos 4 laptop.  ./configure, make and make install 
all work fine, but when I then go to /etc/init.d to start netdaemon, it 
complains that it cannot find checkproc.  I can't seem to even find 
anything on google for redhat or RHEL and checkproc or killproc.  The 
closest I came was finding that killproc is in /etc/init.d/functions...  
but I'm not sure how to call it, when starting a daemon.

thanks in advance.
cameron