# Escaping a running Wowza instance in Windows/Cygwin

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/escaping-a-running-wowza-instance-in-windows-cygwin/36061>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 25, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/escaping-a-running-wowza-instance-in-windows-cygwin/36061 "2015-03-25T15:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pete\_Couture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b782af/32.png) [@Pete\_Couture](https://community.wowza.com/u/Pete_Couture)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/escaping-a-running-wowza-instance-in-windows-cygwin/36061/1 "2015-03-25T15:04:28Z")

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Hey All,

Coming from a Mac/Linux stack. I’m running the server locally on a new Windows machine and have it running in a Cygwin window for debug statements. However ctl+c and ctl+z don’t seem to terminate the process. It drops me back to a prompt but the process seems to continue to run in the background occasionally outputting log statements.

Is there a key command to terminate or is that not a Windows things?

Cheers,

Peter Couture

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 11:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/escaping-a-running-wowza-instance-in-windows-cygwin/36061/2 "2015-03-26T11:13:42Z")

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Hi,

Please see the [How to start and stop Wowza Streaming Engine software](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-start-and-stop-wowza-streaming-engine-software) article for reference.

Regards,

Jason

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/michelle_b/32/394_2.png) [@Michelle\_B](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michelle_B)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/escaping-a-running-wowza-instance-in-windows-cygwin/36061/3 "2015-03-25T15:34:19Z")

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Hi PCouture,

Have you tried running the shutdown.bat script in a separate shell window? You can find this file in [install-dir]/bin folder.

Michelle

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**Author:** ![Pete\_Couture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b782af/32.png) [@Pete\_Couture](https://community.wowza.com/u/Pete_Couture)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/escaping-a-running-wowza-instance-in-windows-cygwin/36061/4 "2015-03-26T08:09:30Z")

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> Hi PCouture,
> 
> Have you tried running the shutdown.bat script in a separate shell window? You can find this file in [install-dir]/bin folder.
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> Michelle

Thank you! It’s been a long time since I’ve done any shell work in Windows.