What's a clean way to stop mongod on Mac OS X? - macos

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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>

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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 <your_user_name> /Users/<your_user_name>/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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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