Scenario

In certain situations, the first attempt to shut down Tomcat using:

• shutdown.sh or
• stop-jira.sh or
• catalina.sh stop

fails. A second attempt usually succeeds afterwards though.

Suggestion

There's a KB that suggests several scripts to force a Tomcat shutdown if first attempt fails:

• JIRA Does Not Terminate after Shutdown Script

It would be convenient if one of these scripts is integrated into the built-in shutdown scripts to reduce human efforts when such a case happens.