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

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:

Answer 1

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