Mantas MikulÄ?nas: > Maybe socket-activation would work for you? (With Nginx it's also a > hack though.) Accept=No Environment=NGINX=3; It is not terrifically complex. The documented way to stop the forking is "daemon off", but an inherited listening socket also does it. * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728015 * https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/8e8734ec82cde91a02d0cbfaae0d0df6b5aaab14/src/core/nginx.c#L347