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

To restart: If you have the memcached starting up with launchd and your plist file has

  KeepAlive
  

Then you can just kill the process and it will reboot automagically.

ps ux | grep memcached
pkill -f memcached
ps ux | grep memcached

To stop launchd from restarting automatically:

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

To add memcached to launchd again:

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

To uninstall something installed by homebrew:

brew uninstall memcached