What s a clean way to stop mongod on Mac OS X

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i m running mongo 1 8 2 and trying to see how to cleanly shut it down on Mac   on our ubuntu servers i can shutdown mongo cleanly from the mongo shell with    gt  use admin  gt  db shutdownServer     but on my Mac  it does not kill the mongod process   the output shows that it  should be  shutdown but when i ps -ef   grep mongo it shows me an active process   also  i can still open a mongo shell and query my dbs like it was never shutdown   the output from my db shutdownServer   locally is   MongoDB shell version  1 8 2 connecting to  test  gt  use admin                   switched to db admin  gt  db shutdownServer   Tue Dec 13 11 44 21 DBClientCursor  init call   failed Tue Dec 13 11 44 21 query failed   admin  cmd   shutdown  1 0   to  127 0 0 1 server should be down    Tue Dec 13 11 44 21 trying reconnect to 127 0 0 1 Tue Dec 13 11 44 21 reconnect 127 0 0 1 failed couldn t connect to server 127 0 0 1 Tue Dec 13 11 44 21 Error  error doing query  unknown shell collection js 150   i know i can just kill the process but i d like to do it more cleanly

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I prefer to stop the MongoDB server using the port command itself   sudo port unload mongodb   And to start it again   sudo port load mongodb

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If you have installed mongodb community server via homebrew  then you can do  brew services list  This will list the current services as below  Name              Status  User          Plist mongodb-community started thehaystacker  Users thehaystacker Library LaunchAgents homebrew mxcl mongodb-community plist  redis             stopped  Then you can restart mongodb by first stopping and restart  brew services stop mongodb brew services start mongodb

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It s probably because launchctl is managing your mongod instance  If you want to start and shutdown mongod instance  unload that first  launchctl unload -w   Library LaunchAgents org mongodb mongod plist  Then start mongod manually  mongod -f path to mongod conf --fork  You can find your mongod conf location from   Library LaunchAgents org mongodb mongod plist  After that  db shutdownServer   would work just fine  Added Feb 22 2014  If you have mongodb installed via homebrew  homebrew actually has a handy brew services command  To show current running services  brew services list To start mongodb  brew services start mongodb-community To stop mongodb if it s already running  brew services stop mongodb-community Update  As edufinn pointed out in the comment  brew services is now available as user-defined command and can be installed with following command  brew tap gapple services

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If the service is running via brew  you can stop it using the following command  brew services stop mongodb

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This is an old question  but its one I found while searching as well    If you installed with brew then the solution would actually be the this   launchctl unload   Library LaunchAgents homebrew mxcl mongodb plist

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If you installed mongodb with homebrew  there s an easier way   List mongo job with launchctl   launchctl list   grep mongo   Stop mongo job   launchctl stop  lt job label gt     For me this is launchctl stop homebrew mxcl mongodb   Start mongo job   launchctl start  lt job label gt

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Check out these docs   http   www mongodb org display DOCS Starting and Stopping Mongo StartingandStoppingMongo-SendingaUnixINTorTERMsignal  If you started it in a terminal you should be ok with a ctrl    c  -- this will do a clean shutdown   However  if you are using launchctl there are specific instructions for that which will vary depending on how it was installed   If you are using Homebrew it would be launchctl stop homebrew mxcl mongodb

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The solutions provided by others used to work for me but is not working for me anymore  which is as below  brew services stop mongodb brew services start mongodb  brew services list gives Name              Status  User      Plist mongodb-community started XXXXXXXXX  Users XXXXXXXXX Library LaunchAgents homebrew mxcl mongodb-community plist   So I used mongodb-community instead of mongodb which worked for me brew services stop mongodb-community brew services start mongodb-community

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Simple way is to get the process id of mongodb and kill it  Please note DO NOT  USE kill -9 pid for this as it may cause damage to the database   so  1  get the pid of mongodb    pgrep mongo  you will get pid of mongo  Now    kill   You may use kill -15  as well

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