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.
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.