[git@www gitorious]$ /etc/rc.d/passengers start
Start project_name...
Password:

Stopping web server...

/opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.7-2011.03/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/daemon_controller-0.2.6/lib
/daemon_controller.rb:435:in `read': Is a directory - /var/run/passenger/file.pid (Errno::EISDIR)

[git@www gitorious]$ ls /var/run/passenger/ -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x. 2 git git 4096  Jul 13 20:51 file.pid
-rw-rw-r--.   1 git git    0    Jul 13 21:06 file.pid.lock
drwxr-xr-x. 2 git git 4096  Jul 13 20:51 file.socket