How do I stop the RabbitMQ server on localhost

Question

I installed RabbitMQ server on OS X, and started it on command line. Now, it is not obvious that how I should stop it from running? After I did:

sudo rabbitmq-se         


        

Answer 1

It turns out that it is related to permissions. Somehow my rabbitmq server was started with user 'rabbitmq' (which is strange), so that I had to do

sudo -u rabbitmq rabbitmqctl stop

Answer 2

Use rabbitmqctl stop to stop any node. If you need to specify the node giving you trouble, add the -n rabbit@[hostname] option.

Answer 3

In my dev environment where I keep it running all the time, I use:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist

and to start it

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist

Even easier....

brew services stop rabbitmq
brew services start rabbitmq