Great, seems like a good plan, I'll try that. It also seems there is no need to install support tools kit for the kill command, as Windows XP comes with "taskkill" command which I can use.
br1 wrote: > > Janne, > > When running Tomcat as a Windows service it will appear in the task > manager as - for instance - "Tomcat5.exe". > For each instance I use to rename the Tomcat executable to the instance > name, so to distinguish between them easily. > Note that you will have to change a bit the service installer batch. > You can then run or schedule a batch that does a "net stop servicename" > first and then a kill, you never know. The kill command is > in the Support Tools kit. > > By the way, I just discovered that the Windows service installer installs > Tomcat without the juli LogManager, so you will have to > copy a line from the catilina.bat/sh to enable it. > > Hope it helps, > b. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jimpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:10 AM > Subject: Killing tomcat java process, Windows > > >> >> I run two separate tomcat 6 instances on my development environment. Once >> I >> have redeployed the application enough times, the tomcat java.exe freezes >> and has to be shutdown using control-c. shutdown.bat does not work most >> of >> the times. I start the tomcat processes with startup.bat, they are not >> windows services. >> >> < I know, one path is to try and fix the redeployment problem, but let's >> not >> go there in this thread > >> >> I would like to create a .bat script which shuts down the frozen tomcat >> java.exe processes (and calls startup.bat scripts). How could I >> accomplish >> this in Windows? In unix I would have plenty of tools (ps/grep/kill/etc), >> but can this be done in Windows? The process name alone is not enough to >> identify the tomcat processes, as there are several java.exe processes >> running. >> >> What about running the instances as windows services, can those be killed >> / >> started again more easily? >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Killing-tomcat-java-process%2C-Windows-tf4842107.html#a13853324 >> Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > > ---AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM)--- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Killing-tomcat-java-process%2C-Windows-tf4842107.html#a13857677 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
