ctrl-c works. JBoss registers a signal handler that recognizes the INT signal (produced by ctrl-c) and shuts the server down gracefully.

You could also use the shutdown.bat/sh script. It invokes a method on an mbean to do the shutdown.

Peter,

The command 'shutdown.sh -S' shuts down the server. This will work perfectly when you have one server instance running. How do I shutdown a particular server instance for example if I have a server named 'myserver'.

Appreciate your time and help.

Try: shutdown -s hostname:9999 -S

where 'hostname' is the ip address or host name of the system running the app server, and 9999 is the JNDI port.

For example, these two command are equivalent:

shutdown -S
shutdown -s localhost:1099 -S

Hi, I need some help please. What if the graceful shutdown option when invoking the shutdown.bay file is not working.

Shutdown.bat invokes the jboss-cli.bat file and it's currently none responsive.

We are running JBoss on Windows server.

Another question, how dangerous is it to just do a <CNTRL>+C to initiate a shutdown?

Thank you for the help