I guess your intention is to not leave the server running till ant exit but allow jboss test suite to complete. If that's correct, Martin's changes are sufficient since he made server process to be destroyed during stop task. So -H retry would not be needed. What I don't like with current implementation is that we will not notice shutdown issues in test suite runs. Unfortunately I can't think of a generic way to make the job execute to completion but fail if any servers failed to shutdown. What is easiest to implement is: 1. if server fails to shutdown and failonerror is false (the default), then set a project property "jboss.server.shutdown.fail" 2. have that line after all tests finish '' Do you want me to do make these changes: #1 in the ant task fine and #2 in the Jboss AS 5 testsuite/build.xml file? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116613#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...