shutdown redis-server from command line

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I am trying to shutdown my redis-server from a redis-cli. Whenever I issue a command from a client I receive the error "(error) NOAUTH Authentication required." I have tried the commands "SHUTDOWN" and "SHUTDOWN NOSAVE".

I have also tried "redis-server stop" from another terminal window but received the error "# Fatal error, can't open config file 'stop'"

How can I shut down this server? (I am on OSX).

Itamar Haber · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-30T20:45:50.663

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Your Redis server is configured with a password apparently. Therefore, when using redis-cli, you'll need to issue the AUTH password command before any other command or else you'll be getting that error message (replace password with your server's password).

Alternatively, you can invoke redis-cli with the -a switch followed by your password for the same result.

To find the password of your server, open the Redis configuration file (by default /etc/redis/6379.conf) and look for the line starting with requirepass - whatever value is next to it, is the password.

edited Apr 30 '14 at 20:45

answered Apr 30 '14 at 20:18

Itamar Haber

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Thank you for the response. I ended up killing the redis-server process from the activity manager. I am going recreate the behavior I was seeing earlier and try out your more civilized way of handling to problem. – trvslhlt Apr 30 '14 at 23:22
my /etc/redis/6379.conf is empty so how do I find the password now? – Suresh Feb 08 '22 at 12:31
You'll need to find which conf file your server uses - by default, Redis is not protected by a password. – Itamar Haber Feb 09 '22 at 15:04

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '16 at 20:01

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1. redis-cli
2. auth yourpassword
3. shutdown
4. sudo service redis_6379 start

answered Jan 22 '16 at 20:01

Farid Movsumov

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Can you expand on why this is the correct answer and what it does to solve OP's issue. – Warren Burton Jan 23 '16 at 10:15
I got ERR Errors trying to SHUTDOWN. Check logs after typing shutdown – Alex Jun 27 '20 at 19:58

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 22 '15 at 14:05

You have to manually edit the start/stop-service script:

sudo vi /etc/init.d/redis_6379

Find the following line:

$CLIEXEC -p $REDISPORT shutdown

And replace it with the following 'changeit' is where your password goes:

$CLIEXEC -p $REDISPORT -a changeit shutdown

Now you should be able to start and stop the service without any problems.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 19 '17 at 09:21

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On Amazon EC2 instance I could restart local Redis like this:

sudo /etc/init.d/redis restart

P.S. If you are using Redis Authentication you have to pass -a <pass> parameter.

answered Apr 19 '17 at 09:21

D.Dimitrioglo

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shutdown redis-server from command line

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