Apologize for the cross-post but I'm not sure where my question should be resolved (I'm guessing medusa). I'm developing a medusa/quixote application (great job on the tech resources btw) and can't figure out how to shutdown the server cleanly. Yes - I actually want to be able to shutdown the app through my web browser. Sometimes in runs on win32, sometimes on linux so I prefer an internal mechanism that can be coded. I tried calling sys.exit() and the log annouces that it catches the SystemExit exception and it claims to be shutting down but it doesn't. many thanx, Ben Scherrey