porting python script from linux to freebsd

[Rocky Borg]

I hope this is the right place to direct this question. I've been trying 
to track down a python issue that is specific to freebsd. The Cherokee 
webserver (http://www.freshports.org/www/cherokee/) has a python gui 
backend to admin the server. It works perfectly under Linux. 
Unfortunately it doesn't work correctly under FreeBSD. There aren't a 
lot of people that use FreeBSD to run cherokee so the main developers 
don't seem to interested in fixing it. I'm trying to track down the bug.

If cherokee is started from rc.d scripts or command line it works fine. 
You can stop the server cleanly. But once it's started from the admin 
interface (which uses python) it can't be stopped. The admin interface 
shows that it sees cherokee running on the correct pid but once started 
from the admin interface the server can't be stopped 
(/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cherokee stop stops working also). Any information 
would be greatly appreciated since it's hard finding issues specific to 
freebsd/python. And the basic attitude seems to be if it works on linux 
that's good enough.

Has anyone experienced this sort of problem on FreeBSD or perhaps could 
direct me to something that would explain what's going on.

Bug report on the issue:

http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=527
http://www.cherokee-project.com

Script that handles starting and stopping the server:

http://www.ctwow.net/sladeimages/Cherokee.py

Any help would be greatly appreciated.