nginx reload not working, restart creates orphan yet active worker

[groknaut]

and i forgot to include nginx -V ..


10/19 19:12[root at proxy2 ~]# nginx -V
nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.0.5
nginx: built by gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)
nginx: TLS SNI support disabled
nginx: configure arguments: --user=nginx --group=nginx
--prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/lock/subsys/nginx
--with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module
--with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module
--with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_sub_module
--with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module
--with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_degradation_module
--with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_perl_module --with-ipv6
--with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386
-mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe
-Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic
-fasynchronous-unwind-tables' --with-debug
--add-module=src/http/modules/nginx_syslog_patch
--add-module=src/http/modules/nginx_upstream_module
--add-module=src/http/modules/nginx_ajp_module

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