1) kill -3 does not kill the process - it sends a quit signal to the JVM which then sends the threadump to stdout. You need to ensure that the initialization script used to run jbossas redirects stdout to a file. 2, 3) Based on your earlier statements, I would not expect these to work because they require jbossas to repsond. 4) Did you configure jbossas to allow connections? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4185758#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...