Lighttpd

Here's an example of starting fastcgi with an init script on CentOS. I couldn't find another example of this, and it took me a while to hack one together from other init script and fcgi examples, hope it helps.

#!/bin/sh
#
# fcgi     Startup script for fcgi
#
# processname: fcgi

# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

FCGI_DAEMON="/usr/local/bin/spawn-fcgi" 
FCGI_PROGRAM="/usr/local/bin/php-cgi" 
FCGI_SOCKET="/tmp/php-fastcgi.sock" 
FCGI_PIDFILE="/var/run/spawn-fcgi.pid" 
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000
prog="fcgi" 

export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS

RETVAL=0

start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: " 
        daemon $FCGI_DAEMON -f $FCGI_PROGRAM -s $FCGI_SOCKET -C $PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN -P $FCGI_PIDFILE
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog
        return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: " 
        rm -f $FCGI_PIDFILE $FCGI_SOCKET
        killproc $FCGI_PROGRAM
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
        return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
        start)
                start
                ;;
        stop)
                stop
                ;;
        restart)
                stop
                start
                ;;
        condrestart)
                if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ]; then
                        stop
                        start
                fi
                ;;
        status)
                status $lighttpd
                RETVAL=$?
                ;;
        *)
                echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}" 
                RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL