Hi, you are right: removing the sockets would result in lighty spawning new backends. But the problem is that php doesn't die, and if you just remove the sockets, you will just create more hanging processes.
If you (or someone else who has the problem, that stopping lighty doesn't kill the spawned backends) can find out why that really could help. I always recommend spawning FastCGI backends with spawn-fcgi from supervise (daemontools) or runit; that way you can restart your applications independently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org