2011/1/21 Adib <amsl...@gmail.com>: > I am wondering why does tomcat need a shut down port on windows but > not on Unix. My guess is that UNIX has support for signals and on > shutdown you can do kill -3 to get the JVM to shutdown but windows > they can't for some reason. If anyone can shed some light on this for > me, it would be great, I am sure there are others wondering why the > shutdown port is needed.
You are running it as a Service? It is not needed in 6.0.30+, and in earlier versions as well, but see https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49195 If you are using bat files or running from withing an IDE the port will be needed. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org