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

When setting up the server to require auth...

The redis start and shutdown script utilizes redis-cli, which means that shutdown will not happen without auth and the server will hang in a loop waiting for redis to shutdown, which won't ever happen without auth.

So in the shutdown script you have to change

$CLIEXEC -p $REDISPORT shutdown

to

$CLIEXEC -a 'authpassword' -p $REDISPORT shutdown

in order to allow your redis service to shutdown without hassle.