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:
> use admin
> 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
> use admin
switched to db admin
> 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.
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
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
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
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 <job label>
(For me this is launchctl stop homebrew.mxcl.mongodb
)
Start mongo job:
launchctl start <job label>
If the service is running via brew, you can stop it using the following command:
brew services stop mongodb
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
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
Check out these docs:
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
Source: Stackoverflow.com