There's no scriptable way to check if localias is running. localias status always exits 0 regardless of daemon state:
$ localias status
daemon running with pid 36566
$ echo $?
0
$ localias stop
stopping daemon on pid 36566
$ localias status
daemon is not running
$ echo $?
0
I would like a way to determine that localias is running. Since this doesn't work, I am falling back to pgrep -x localias.