title: Ending and deleting a queue manager by force
body: <p>Currently I have a queue manager that no matter I do just fails to go away. I am trying to end it and delete it. This is in one of our development servers. Not sure what happened, our server went through host name changes. Currently when I do <em>dspmq</em>, I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>QMNAME(QM_MIT)                                            STATUS(Status not available)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>endmqm</em> says:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AMQ8146: WebSphere MQ queue manager not available.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>dltmqm</em> says:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AMQ8041: The queue manager cannot be restarted or deleted because processes,
  that were previously connected, are still running.
  AMQ7018: The queue manager operation cannot be completed.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I googled and found that listener needs to be killed, which I did. I am running WebSphere MQ v7.1 on Linux.</p>
  
  <p>What else can I do?</p>