diff --git a/jetty-home/src/main/resources/bin/jetty.sh b/jetty-home/src/main/resources/bin/jetty.sh
index ebcf0f43296c..de54453f0c64 100755
--- a/jetty-home/src/main/resources/bin/jetty.sh
+++ b/jetty-home/src/main/resources/bin/jetty.sh
@@ -495,13 +495,10 @@ case "$ACTION" in
         # FIXME: Broken solution: wordsplitting, pathname expansion, arbitrary command execution, etc.
         su - "$JETTY_USER" $SU_SHELL -c "
           cd \"$JETTY_BASE\"
-          echo ${RUN_ARGS[*]} start-log-file=\"$JETTY_START_LOG\" | xargs ${JAVA} > /dev/null &
-          disown \$!
-          echo \$! > \"$JETTY_PID\""
+          echo ${RUN_ARGS[*]} --pid-file=\"$JETTY_PID\" start-log-file=\"$JETTY_START_LOG\" | xargs ${JAVA} > /dev/null &
+          "
       else
-        echo ${RUN_ARGS[*]} | xargs ${JAVA} > /dev/null &
-        disown $!
-        echo $! > "$JETTY_PID"
+        echo ${RUN_ARGS[*]} | xargs ${JAVA} --pid-file="$JETTY_PID" > /dev/null &
       fi
 
     fi
diff --git a/jetty-home/src/main/resources/etc/jetty-pid.xml b/jetty-home/src/main/resources/etc/jetty-pid.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..573953cdd27f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jetty-home/src/main/resources/etc/jetty-pid.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE Configure PUBLIC "-//Jetty//Configure//EN" "https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/configure_9_3.dtd">
+
+<!-- =============================================================== -->
+<!-- Mixin the Start FileNoticeLifeCycleListener                     -->
+<!-- =============================================================== -->
+<Configure id="Server" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server">
+  <Call name="addEventListener">
+    <Arg>
+      <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.PidFileLifeCycleListener">
+        <Arg><Property name="jetty.pid.file" default="./jetty.pid"/></Arg>
+      </New>
+    </Arg>
+  </Call>
+</Configure>
diff --git a/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/StartArgs.java b/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/StartArgs.java
index b1554fa0237f..d1e6e42e6237 100644
--- a/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/StartArgs.java
+++ b/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/StartArgs.java
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ public class StartArgs
 
     private boolean help = false;
     private boolean stopCommand = false;
+    private String pidFile = null;
     private List<String> listModules = null;
     private List<String> showModules = null;
     private boolean listClasspath = false;
@@ -919,6 +920,11 @@ public String getModuleGraphFilename()
         return moduleGraphFilename;
     }
 
+    public String getPidFile()
+    {
+        return pidFile;
+    }
+
     public Props getProperties()
     {
         return properties;
@@ -1169,6 +1175,13 @@ public void parse(final String rawarg, String source)
             return;
         }
 
+        if (arg.startsWith("--pid-file="))
+        {
+            setProperty("jetty.pid.file", pidFile, source);
+            xmlRefs.add("etc/jetty-pid.xml");
+            return;
+        }
+
         if (arg.startsWith("--download="))
         {
             addFile(null, Props.getValue(arg));
diff --git a/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/component/PidFileLifeCycleListener.java b/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/component/PidFileLifeCycleListener.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..76e3ca66d8c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/component/PidFileLifeCycleListener.java
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+//
+// ========================================================================
+// Copyright (c) 1995-2023 Mort Bay Consulting Pty Ltd and others.
+//
+// This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+// terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+// https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, or the Apache License, Version 2.0
+// which is available at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0
+// ========================================================================
+//
+
+package org.eclipse.jetty.util.component;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class PidFileLifeCycleListener implements LifeCycle.Listener
+{
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PidFileLifeCycleListener.class);
+
+    private final Path pidFile;
+
+    public PidFileLifeCycleListener(String filename)
+    {
+        pidFile = Paths.get(filename);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void lifeCycleStarting(LifeCycle event)
+    {
+        long pid = ProcessHandle.current().pid();
+        try
+        {
+            Files.writeString(pidFile, Long.toString(pid), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        }
+        catch (IOException e)
+        {
+            LOG.warn("Unable to create pidFile: {}", pidFile, e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void lifeCycleFailure(LifeCycle event, Throwable cause)
+    {
+        removePid();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void lifeCycleStopped(LifeCycle event)
+    {
+        removePid();
+    }
+
+    private void removePid()
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            Files.deleteIfExists(pidFile);
+        }
+        catch (IOException e)
+        {
+            LOG.warn("Unable to remove pidFile: {}", pidFile, e);
+        }
+    }
+}