See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=25887 Posted on behalf of a User If you call service stop from any directory that is not the one it's located on, then it will shutdown the server. The reason is that it doesn't specify a relative path to the shutdown.bat script. As a result, if you're in a different directory, the win32 command shutdown gets called, and this shuts down the server. The solution to prevent accidentally shutting down the server, is to edit service.bat so that it's a little more explicit when calling shutdown.bat: change call shutdown > shutdown.log 2>&1 to call .\shutdown.bat > shutdown.log 2>&1 This will prevent the script from politely, but incorrectly, shutting down the server. In Response To: When I try to restart the Jboss service from controlPanel-> Services->Jboss the entire machine reboots. There is no apparent way to stop this process once started This can cause much customer dissatisfaction. ------------------------ running service.bat restart results in JVM-BIND erors (Port already in use) ---------------------- Is there a way round this - I want my web to redeploy after altering connectors and Aliases Perhaps I am doing something wrong?