Stop redis server. Neither shutdown nor stop works

Question

I want to stop the redis server and it just keeps going and going. I am using redis-2.6.7

Check that it is running:

redis-server

It say

Answer 1

The normal way of doing this is to connect to a client like redis-cli and execute "shutdown" command. I've found some issues trying to shutdown because redis-server doesn't have right permissions to edit db dump file (RDB) prior to quit. Then redis remains started and you have to kill the process with kill -9 pid. But this is not a redis problem as you may know.

Example of this problem:

# User requested shutdown...
[16560] 10 Sep 11:21:17.672 * Saving the final RDB snapshot before exiting.
[16560] 10 Sep 11:21:17.672 # Failed opening .rdb for saving: Permission denied
[16560] 10 Sep 11:21:17.672 # Error trying to save the DB, can't exit.