Stopping/Restarting instance from the command line

Dev WO <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:44:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
I was wondering if there is a more cleaver way to stop and restart an 
instances from the command line than killing the PID?
Thanks for your knowledge;)

Xavier