diff --git a/scripts/install/install_rhel-derivs.sh b/scripts/install/install_rhel-derivs.sh
index f6b6c05322..e0669de7f6 100755
--- a/scripts/install/install_rhel-derivs.sh
+++ b/scripts/install/install_rhel-derivs.sh
@@ -1,142 +1,147 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 confirm() {
   echo "Press RETURN to continue, or ^C to cancel.";
   read -e ignored
 }
 
 RHEL_VER_FILE="/etc/redhat-release"
 
 if [[ ! -f $RHEL_VER_FILE ]]
 then
   echo "It looks like you're not running a Red Hat-derived distribution."
   echo "This script is intended to install Phabricator on RHEL-derived"
   echo "distributions such as RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, and Scientific Linux."
   echo "Proceed with caution."
   confirm
 fi
 
 echo "PHABRICATOR RED HAT DERIVATIVE INSTALLATION SCRIPT";
 echo "This script will install Phabricator and all of its core dependencies.";
 echo "Run it from the directory you want to install into.";
 echo
 
 RHEL_REGEX="release ([0-9]+)\."
 
 if [[ $(cat $RHEL_VER_FILE) =~ $RHEL_REGEX ]]
 then
   RHEL_MAJOR_VER=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
 else
   echo "Ut oh, we were unable to determine your distribution's major"
   echo "version number. Please make sure you're running 6.0+ before"
   echo "proceeding."
   confirm
 fi
 
-if [[ $RHEL_MAJOR_VER < 6 ]]
+if [[ $RHEL_MAJOR_VER < 6 && $RHEL_MAJOR_VER > 0 ]]
 then
   echo "** WARNING **"
   echo "A major version less than 6 was detected. Because of this,"
   echo "several needed dependencies are not available via default repos."
   echo "Specifically, RHEL 5 does not have a PEAR package for php53-*."
   echo "We will attempt to install it manually, for APC. Please be careful."
   confirm
 fi
 
 echo "Phabricator will be installed to: $(pwd).";
 confirm
 
 echo "Testing sudo/root..."
 if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]] # Check if we're root. If we are, continue.
 then
   sudo true
   SUDO="sudo"
   if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
   then
     echo "ERROR: You must be able to sudo to run this script, or run it as root.";
     exit 1
   fi
 
 fi
 
 if [[ $RHEL_MAJOR_VER == 5 ]]
 then
   # RHEL 5's "php" package is actually 5.1. The "php53" package won't let us install php-pecl-apc.
   # (it tries to pull in php 5.1 stuff) ...
-  echo "Adding EPEL repo, for git."
-  $SUDO rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
+  yum repolist | grep -i epel
+  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "It doesn't look like you have the EPEL repo enabled. We are to add it"
+    echo "for you, so that we can install git."
+    $SUDO rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
+  fi
   YUMCOMMAND="$SUDO yum install httpd git php53 php53-cli php53-mysql php53-process php53-devel php53-gd gcc wget make pcre-devel mysql-server"
 else
   # RHEL 6+ defaults with php 5.3
   YUMCOMMAND="$SUDO yum install httpd git php php-cli php-mysql php-process php-devel php-gd php-pecl-apc php-pecl-json mysql-server"
 fi
 
 echo "Dropping to yum to install dependencies..."
 echo "Running: ${YUMCOMMAND}"
 echo "Yum will prompt you with [Y/n] to continue installing."
 
 $YUMCOMMAND
 
 if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
 then
   echo "The yum command failed. Please fix the errors and re-run this script."
   exit 1
 fi
 
 if [[ $RHEL_MAJOR_VER == 5 ]]
 then
   # Now that we've ensured all the devel packages required for pecl/apc are there, let's
   # set up PEAR, and install apc.
   echo "Attempting to install PEAR"
   wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
-  echo "Downloading PEAR: $PEARCOMMAND"
   $SUDO php go-pear.phar && $SUDO pecl install apc
 fi
 
 if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
 then
   echo "The apc install failed. Continuing without APC, performance may be impacted."
 fi
 
-if [[ "$(pidof httpd)" ]]
+pidof httpd 2>&1 > /dev/null
+if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]
 then
   echo "If php was installed above, please run: /etc/init.d/httpd graceful"
 else
   echo "Please remember to start the httpd with: /etc/init.d/httpd start"
 fi
 
-if [[ ! "$(pidof mysql)" ]]
+pidof mysqld 2>&1 > /dev/null
+if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
 then
   echo "Please remember to start the mysql server: /etc/init.d/mysqld start"
 fi
 
 confirm
 
 if [[ ! -e libphutil ]]
 then
   git clone git://github.com/facebook/libphutil.git
 else
   (cd libphutil && git pull --rebase)
 fi
 
 if [[ ! -e arcanist ]]
 then
   git clone git://github.com/facebook/arcanist.git
 else
   (cd arcanist && git pull --rebase)
 fi
 
 if [[ ! -e phabricator ]]
 then
   git clone git://github.com/facebook/phabricator.git
 else
   (cd phabricator && git pull --rebase)
 fi
 
 (cd phabricator && git submodule update --init)
 
 echo
 echo
 echo "Install probably worked mostly correctly. Continue with the 'Configuration Guide':";
 echo
-echo "    http://www.phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/Configuration_Guide.html";
\ No newline at end of file
+echo "    http://www.phabricator.com/docs/phabricator/article/Configuration_Guide.html";