Rails - Nov 2005 - Switchtower and Lighttpd

I like switchtower... one more thing that allows me to spend more  
time focusing on the problem and less time on the mundane tasks.

I am using the following for the lighttpd server:

desc "Restart lighttpd"
task :restart, :roles => :app do
   pids = "ps wwwax | grep lighttpd | grep -v grep " +
           "| grep -v assets | cut -b 1-5"
   "kill `#{pids}`"
end

Now it works perfectly when I deploy a new version of the code.  The  
problem is on rollback I need to manually go onto the server and do a  
restart.  Does that make any sense?  Has anyone else run into similar  
problems?

Thanks for the help.

Your Friend,

John Kopanas