Stopping K2 Server

You can run K2 Server either as a Windows service or in a command window, as an ordinary application. Unless you use the -ntService 1 option when starting K2 Server, K2 runs in the command window.

Stopping K2 when run as a service

To halt K2 Server when it is running as a Windows service, you have two options:

Open the Services Control Panel and stop the K2 Server service.
Open a command window and enter the command:
```
k2server -ntService 0
```

Stopping K2 when run as an application

When K2 is running as an application in a command window, you stop K2 by issuing a Ctrl+C keyboard command to kill the process in the window where it is running.

Stopping K2 Server on Linux/UNIX

The ColdFusion installation includes a script for halting K2 Server. The stopk2server script can be found in /opt/coldfusion/bin by default.

UNIX/Linux stopk2server script file listing

#!/bin/sh

#

# stop k2 server - setup environment and stop k2 server

#

#

# Get the pid for the process specified

#

pidproc()

{

  pid=`ps -eo'pid,comm' |

    grep $1 |

    sed -e 's/^  *//' -e 's/ .*//'`

}

#

# Kill named process(es).

# Try killing it nicely at first.  If it won't die willing, 

# then use kill -9

#

killproc()

{

  pidproc $1



   if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then

     kill $pid

     pidproc $1



     if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then

      sleep 5                       # give it sometime to die

      pidproc $1



      if [ "$pid" != "" ] ; then    # if it still lives, use -9

        kill -9 $pid

      fi



    fi



  fi

}



# Make sure K2 server goes away

  killproc k2server



exit 0

Advanced ColdFusion Administration
Configuring Verity K2 Server