Starting and Stopping Geronimo in Gshell

Geronimo can be started through GShell using the geronimo/start-server command.

jason@Jason-Warners-Computer.local:/> geronimo/start-server --background
Launching Geronimo Server...
Booting Geronimo Kernel (in Java 1.5.0_13)...

If the --background option is not used, then the server instance will maintain control of the terminal and a new instance of gshell must be started to interact with the server.

Other useful geronimo/start-server options (Use geronimo/start-server --help to see a full list of options).

start-server
 --

  -A (--javaagent) JAR           Use a specific Java Agent, set to 'none' to disable
  -D (--property) NAME=VALUE     Define system properties
  -G (--gproperty) NAME=VALUE    Define an org.apache.geronimo property
  -H (--home) DIR                Use a specific Geronimo home directory
  -J (--javaopt) FLAG            Set a JVM flag
  -b (--background)              Run the server process in the background
  -h (--help)                    Display this help message
  -j (--jvm) DIR                 Use a specific Java Virtual Machine for server
                                 process
  -l (--logfile) FILE            Capture console output to file
  -m (--module) NAME             Start up a specific module by name
  -q (--quiet)                   Suppress informative and warning messages
  -t (--timeout) N               Specify the timeout for the server process in s
                                 econds
  -v (--verbose)                 Enable verbose output; specify multipule times
                                 to increase verbosity

Geronimo can be stopped using the geronimo/stop-server command.

jason@Jason-Warners-Computer.local:/> geronimo/stop-server -u system -w manager
Stopping Geronimo server: localhost:1099
[] received stop signal

If username -u and password -w are not provided on the command line, the user will be prompted for them before the server shutdown process is started. The full set of geronimo/stop-server options can be seen in gshell using the --help option, the same way as for geronimo/start-server.

On a Windows platform

Use forward slash "/" instead of the traditional back slash "\" as directory separators within GShell commands.
For example:

jason@Local:/>geronimo/start-server -j 'c:/programme files/Java60/bin/java.exe'

This issue is addressed by (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4709)