Installed memcached via homebrew, how to start and stop server?

Question

I have memcached installed via homebrew.

1. how do I start/stop the server?

2. Any command-line tools to interact with memcached?

3. doe

Answer 1

You can enable Memcached to automatically load on login.

This first line creates a symlink (symbolic link) from where Homebrew installed it to the LaunchAgents folder.

ln -sfv /usr/local/Cellar/memcached/1.4.17/homebrew.mxcl.memcached.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

Then to launch it now:

launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.memcached.plist