I have replaced Apache httpd with lighthttpd which has builtin scgi
support. My site (an online computational server) is just back online!
But I don't know how stable the new setup and I still have to see if
it suffers from the unwanted old ptl file persistence problems.

BTW, why are the flags --P (pidfile  --u (as user) --l(logfile)
unrecognized in scgi? ?The -P flag would be useful since currently to
stop the server, I have to scan the netstat output for the port scgi
is configured to listen to  and manually kill it.

Thanks to the developers of the Quixote and supporting software and to
the folks who answer in the mailing lists. I was about to use Django
or Turbogears, but I did not have the time to learn a new  framework
(or shuder at the horror of rewriting  more than a hundred PTL files
which is still growing).

Ernie
http:www.extremecomputing.org/extreme