correction: the manual cmdline should be: shutdown.bat -s=localhost:my_rmi_port -S View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4090104#4090104 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4090104