R: Halting JBoss under Cygwin

Thu Nov 5 12:18:00 GMT 2009

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:59:04AM +0000, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>--- Gio 5/11/09, Larry W. Virden ha scritto:
>>> One of the developers trying out
>> Cygwin recently asked me for some assistance regarding the
>> bringing of JBoss to a halt.
>>>> Previously, he had been using MKS Toolkit. His process is
>> run a .bat file that starts up the JBoss application server,
>> which also starts his application. Then, under MKS Toolkit,
>> he could use ps and kill to locate the appropriate processes
>> and kill them when he needed.
>>>> As he has begun testing JBoss under Cygwin, he has had some
>> problems getting things to work. The first problem was that
>> the processes were not showing up in ps. I found the mention
>> in the ps man page concerning the use of -W to see Windows
>> processes, and that helped some. Now he can see the
>> processes using ps -Wef. However, when he issues a kill
>> against the process id, kill says the process doesn't
>> exist.
>>>> Is there some material to which I can point the developer
>> to help him over this hurdle?
>>>> Thank you all very much.
>>>>>to kill a Windows program use a Windows kill.
>>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx

That shouldn't be necessary if the windows program was started via
cygwin. If it wasn't started using cygwin then you can use the
/bin/kill -f <windows-pid> to stop it.
cgf
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