topic Not able to stop alfresco 5.1 instances in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/not-able-to-stop-alfresco-5-1-instances/m-p/17597#M7796 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Recently I am facing an issue while stopping my alfresco 5.1 instances. I have two instances of alfresco 5.1 running on my server with different ports. Now when I try to stop the instance through <STRONG>sudo ./alfresco.sh stop&nbsp;</STRONG>command the script returns that there is no instance running but when I grep for the instance I can see the instance running. I delved&nbsp;into the alfresco.sh script and found out that it was calling &lt;ALFRESCO_HOME&gt;/tomcat/scripts/ctl.sh script which was using catalina.pid file to get the PID I checked the PID stored in the catalina.pid file and found out that the PID didn't matched the PID on which the instance was running on. For e.g.</P><P></P><P>PID in catalina.pid &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;==&gt;&gt; 2548</P><P>PID via grep(ps -ef | grep alfresco) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;==&gt;&gt; 22959</P><P></P><P>Please let me know if any one has faced this issue and a possible remedy.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Hiten Rastogi</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:49:00 GMT hiten_rastogi1 2017-02-20T10:49:00Z Not able to stop alfresco 5.1 instances https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/not-able-to-stop-alfresco-5-1-instances/m-p/17597#M7796 Hi,Recently I am facing an issue while stopping my alfresco 5.1 instances. I have two instances of alfresco 5.1 running on my server with different ports. Now when I try to stop the instance through sudo ./alfresco.sh stop&nbsp;command the script returns that there is no instance running but when I grep Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:49:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/not-able-to-stop-alfresco-5-1-instances/m-p/17597#M7796 hiten_rastogi1 2017-02-20T10:49:00Z Re: Not able to stop alfresco 5.1 instances https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/not-able-to-stop-alfresco-5-1-instances/m-p/17598#M7797 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I was to able to sought out this issue.</P><P></P><P>There was a script on the server that was stopping the tomcat of the instance directly and then restarting the tomcat due to which the catalina.pid file was not getting updated with the latest PID and hence the <STRONG>./alfresco.sh stop&nbsp;</STRONG>was not able to stop the instance.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:32:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/not-able-to-stop-alfresco-5-1-instances/m-p/17598#M7797 hiten_rastogi1 2017-03-16T12:32:01Z