I want to write an init.d script with the typical start - stop options to start JBossAS. I want to use the method of writing a pid file when started and killing the pid found in the file when stopping. I do not want to use the "normal" shutdown mechanism to stop it because that assumes the JBoss instance has exposed its remote MBean interface (and I do not want to assume that). Plus, I want to ensure it is killed, and using the "kill" command is as fool-proof as I need it to be. I also want to be able to use run.sh to start the instance (I do not want to have to do all the work run.sh does - setting up the JVM, passing in arguments, worrying about all the cygwin - darwin things, etc. etc.). But, if my init.d script starts run.sh, I cannot use $! in my init.d script as the pid file contents because $! is the pid of run.sh script process. It is NOT the pid of the JBoss JVM instance itself. If I then go to kill the run.sh process, it dies, but the JVM process does not. Therefore, the init.d stop option does not work - it cannot stop the JBoss VM. I would like to propose to make the following change to run.sh that would facilitate this. This change is backwards compatible. What this change does is - if I set the environment variable "LAUNCH_JBOSS_IN_BACKGROUND" and source run.sh, run.sh will export JBOSS_PID as the pid value of the JVM process. My init.d script (the thing that sources run.sh) will be able to write JBOSS_PID anywhere I want and thus later be able to use it to kill the JBoss VM. Here is the change I propose (it only changes the bottom - I wrap the existing loop in an if-statement with the else clause running the VM in background): | if [ "x$LAUNCH_JBOSS_IN_BACKGROUND" = "x" ]; then | ### START - BELOW IS WHAT ALREADY EXISTS IN run.sh | STATUS=10 | while [ $STATUS -eq 10 ] | do | # Execute the JVM | "$JAVA" $JAVA_OPTS \ | -Djava.endorsed.dirs="$JBOSS_ENDORSED_DIRS" \ | -classpath "$JBOSS_CLASSPATH" \ | org.jboss.Main "$@" | STATUS=$? | # if it doesn't work, you may want to take a look at this: | # http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4465334.html | done | ### END - ABOVE IS WHAT ALREADY EXISTS IN run.sh | else | "$JAVA" $JAVA_OPTS \ | -Djava.endorsed.dirs="$JBOSS_ENDORSED_DIRS" \ | -classpath "$JBOSS_CLASSPATH" \ | org.jboss.Main "$@" & | JBOSS_PID=$! | export JBOSS_PID | fi | Its important to note that if you use this LAUNCH_JBOSS_IN_BACKGROUND feature, you have to "source" run.sh (you can't execute it from your init.d process because environment variables do not export up to a parent process - you have to ". run.sh" in order to get that exported environment variable into the shell that sourced run.sh). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3976386#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...