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

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