diff --git a/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_worker_memory b/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_worker_memory
index c1a8d69375..2a37461509 100755
--- a/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_worker_memory
+++ b/puppet/zulip/files/nagios_plugins/zulip_app_frontend/check_worker_memory
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ datafile=$(mktemp)
 
 # We expect other Nagios checks to monitor for whether no queue
 # workers are running, so we give that condition a pass
-processes=$(pgrep -f '^python.* /home/zulip/deployments/current/manage.py process_queue')
+processes=$(pgrep -xf 'python.* /home/zulip/deployments/current/manage.py process_queue .*')
 if [ -z "$processes" ]; then
     echo "No workers running"
     exit 0
diff --git a/puppet/zulip/manifests/profile/rabbitmq.pp b/puppet/zulip/manifests/profile/rabbitmq.pp
index f78c9559ba..0a3dd4c4e0 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip/manifests/profile/rabbitmq.pp
+++ b/puppet/zulip/manifests/profile/rabbitmq.pp
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class zulip::profile::rabbitmq {
   # running and exits if so.
   exec { 'epmd':
     command => 'epmd -daemon',
-    unless  => 'which pgrep && pgrep -f [e]pmd >/dev/null',
+    unless  => 'which pgrep && pgrep -x epmd >/dev/null',
     require => Package[$erlang],
     path    => '/usr/bin/:/bin/',
   }
diff --git a/puppet/zulip/manifests/supervisor.pp b/puppet/zulip/manifests/supervisor.pp
index db650a8be3..3b2d1a4016 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip/manifests/supervisor.pp
+++ b/puppet/zulip/manifests/supervisor.pp
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class zulip::supervisor {
       # don't match.
       hasrestart => true,
       # lint:ignore:140chars
-      restart    => "bash -c 'if pgrep -f supervisor[d] >/dev/null; then supervisorctl reread && supervisorctl update; else ${zulip::common::supervisor_start}; fi'",
+      restart    => "bash -c 'if pgrep -x supervisord >/dev/null; then supervisorctl reread && supervisorctl update; else ${zulip::common::supervisor_start}; fi'",
       # lint:endignore
     }
     exec { 'supervisor-restart':
diff --git a/puppet/zulip_ops/files/cron.d/camo b/puppet/zulip_ops/files/cron.d/camo
index a3208f8d60..6df9b01401 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip_ops/files/cron.d/camo
+++ b/puppet/zulip_ops/files/cron.d/camo
@@ -1 +1 @@
-* * * * * root /bin/bash -c '(pgrep -u nobody -f camo || /etc/init.d/camo restart) 2>&1 >>/var/log/camo/restart-log'
+* * * * * root /bin/bash -c '(pgrep -u nobody -F /var/run/camo.pid || /etc/init.d/camo restart) 2>&1 >>/var/log/camo/restart-log'
diff --git a/scripts/restart-server b/scripts/restart-server
index fcefe81907..b243057c27 100755
--- a/scripts/restart-server
+++ b/scripts/restart-server
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ if action == "start" or args.less_graceful:
 using_sso = subprocess.check_output(["./scripts/get-django-setting", "USING_APACHE_SSO"])
 if using_sso.strip() == b"True":
     logging.info("Restarting Apache WSGI process...")
-    subprocess.check_call(["pkill", "-f", "apache2", "-u", "zulip"])
+    subprocess.check_call(["pkill", "-x", "apache2", "-u", "zulip"])
 
 logging.info("Done!")
 print(OKGREEN + f"Zulip {action}ed successfully!" + ENDC)