How to stop mongo DB in one command

Question

I need to be able to start/stop MongoDB on the cli. It is quite simple to start:

./mongod

But to stop mongo DB, I need to run open m

Answer 1

If the server is running as the foreground process in a terminal, this can be done by pressing

Ctrl-C

Another way to cleanly shut down a running server is to use the shutdown command,

> use admin
> db.shutdownServer();

Otherwise, a command like kill can be used to send the signal. If mongod has 10014 as its PID, the command would be

kill -2 10014