How to stop and restart memcached server?

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How to stop and restart memcached server 1.4.5 in linux OS from command line?

can anybody help me in this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50135302/memcached-could-not-connect-to-remote-server-memcached-js — Rituraj RF N TF, May 07 '18 at 12:13

score 128 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 07 '11 at 18:20

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Using root, try something like this:

/etc/init.d/memcached restart

edited Nov 07 '11 at 18:20

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answered Jun 22 '10 at 20:02

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it did not work- is there a need to creare script to stop and start as service? – smriti Jun 23 '10 at 15:56
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well, it realy depends on your linux distribution and how you did install memcache. If you hav installed package of your distribution there should be memcached start/stop script (maybe it is in different directory like /etc/rc.d) If you installed memcached manualy you probably need also create star/stop script by yourself. – pejuko Jun 23 '10 at 17:11
I had to add sudo – Tomas Gonzalez May 05 '20 at 22:55

score 51 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 09 '20 at 00:13

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Log in as root or do

su -

Then:

service memcached restart

If that doesn't work, then:

/etc/init.d/memcached restart

It all depends on which Linux distro (or other OS) you're using.

edited Jan 09 '20 at 00:13

Boris Verkhovskiy

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answered Dec 17 '11 at 23:50

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btw the dash after su is important, without it, it will report it can't find "service" – ajacian81 Dec 17 '11 at 23:51
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This was the correct answer for me, running Ubuntu and memcached as a service. Without specificing service, it does not work. – user658182 Aug 05 '12 at 14:08
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If you don't have root, but sudo privileges: `sudo service memcached restart` – danriti Feb 27 '13 at 15:32
on some systems `sudo su -` would work to change to root user. – ajacian81 Mar 29 '13 at 13:57
if you have `sudo` (on Debian-based systems) no need for `su -` – Marconius Jan 17 '14 at 21:01

score 29 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 02:23

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If you're using homebrew:

brew services restart memcached

answered Jun 05 '14 at 02:23

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Note that `services` is now considered an external tool to brew. http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/150300/need-help-using-homebrew-services-command – Kirby May 06 '15 at 21:54
...meaning you need to install it before you can use it: `brew tap homebrew/services` – wxactly Sep 23 '15 at 00:26

score 26 · Answer 4 · answered May 20 '13 at 07:22

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sudo service memcached stop

sudo service memcached start

sudo service memcached restart

answered May 20 '13 at 07:22

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score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 16 '16 at 03:45

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if linux

if install by apt-get

service memcached stop
service memcached restart

if install by source code

Usage: /etc/init.d/memcached {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}

can also simply kill $pid to stop

answered Nov 16 '16 at 03:45

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score 7 · Answer 6 · edited Dec 13 '12 at 09:48

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sudo /etc/init.d/memcached restart

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answered Dec 13 '12 at 09:30

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score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 02 '15 at 08:39

As root on CentOS 7:

systemctl start memcached
systemctl stop memcached
systemctl restart memcached

To tell the service to start at reboot (ex chkconfig):

systemctl enable memcached

To tell the service to not start at reboot:

systemctl disable memcached

Eugene Kaurov · Answer 8 · 2019-02-06T15:55:14.073

To shutdown memcache daemon:

sudo service memcached stop

To start memcached daemon:

sudo service memcached start

Restart memcached server:

sudo service memcached restart

You can see if Memcache is currently runing:

sudo ps -e | grep memcached

And you can check the TCP or UDP ports if something (e.g. Memcache) is listening to it:

netstat -ap | grep TheChosenPort#
netstat -ap | grep 11211

For some Linuxes you need to change your commands like:

sudo /etc/init.d/memcached start
sudo /etc/init.d/memcached restart
sudo /etc/init.d/memcached stop

score 6 · Answer 9 · edited Dec 11 '15 at 07:58

If you want to be allowed to shutdown the memcached server you can give it that option before start it :

memcached -A &

With this option when you connect to memcached server for example:

telnet localhost 11211

then you can use shutdown command to shutdown the server. You can also shutdown the memcached server when it is run as a process, first find the process PID using:

pidof memcached

then use:

kill PID command

score 3 · Answer 10 · edited Jun 03 '20 at 00:06

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This worked for me:

brew services stop memcached

edited Jun 03 '20 at 00:06

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answered Jun 02 '20 at 15:34

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 13:25

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If you have an older version of memcached and need a script to wrap memcached as a service, here it is: Memcached Service Script

answered Nov 12 '14 at 13:25

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Kirby · Answer 12 · 2015-06-23T04:05:02.240

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For me, I installed it on a Mac via Homebrew and it is not set up as a service. To run the memcached server, I simply execute memcached -d. This will establish Memcached server on the default port, 11211.

> memcached -d
> telnet localhost 11211
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
version
VERSION 1.4.20

edited Jun 23 '15 at 04:05

answered May 06 '15 at 21:59

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You can use the -d switch to launch memcached as a daemon (bit cleaner than backgrounding it) – carpii Jun 23 '15 at 00:19
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How do you stop memcached if you started it with `memcached -d`? – Andres SK Sep 25 '18 at 12:29

How to stop and restart memcached server?

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