how to stop rabbitmq servers

Question

I am trying to start a node app and I think rabbitmq is getting in the way.

Similar to this thread: "node with name "rabbit" already running", but also "unable to connect to node 'rabbit'"

$ ps aux | grep erl
rabbitmq  1327  0.0  0.0   2376   300 ?        S    Dec13   0:00 /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.5/bin/epmd -daemon
rabbitmq  1344  0.0  0.3  59560 14888 ?        Sl   Dec13   0:10 /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.5/bin/beam.smp -W w -K true -A30 -P 1048576 -- -root /usr/lib/erlang -progname erl -- -home /var/lib/rabbitmq -- -noshell -noinput -sname rabbit@jasonshark -boot /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit@jasonshark-plugins-expand/rabbit -kernel inet_default_connect_options [{nodelay,true}] -sasl errlog_type error -sasl sasl_error_logger false -rabbit error_logger {file,"/var/log/rabbitmq/[email protected]"} -rabbit sasl_error_logger {file,"/var/log/rabbitmq/[email protected]"} -os_mon start_cpu_sup true -os_mon start_disksup false -os_mon start_memsup false -mnesia dir "/var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit@jasonshark"
rabbitmq  1700  0.0  0.0   2136   284 ?        Ss   Dec13   0:00 /usr/lib/erlang/lib/os_mon-2.2.7/priv/bin/cpu_sup
1000     15564  0.0  0.0   4392   820 pts/1    S+   19:23   0:00 grep --color=auto erl

I know I need to run kill -9 {pid of rabbitmq process} now, but which number is the pid?

How do I stop everything to do with rabbitmq, I don't want it interfering with my node js

Answer 1

You have a couple of options:

1. First, try shutting RabbitMQ down gracefully with the init.d script sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop
2. If that doesn't work, use ps -eaf | grep erl to find the process and parent ids. The third column in the output is the parent process ID. Find the first ancestor of all the processes that is still the erlang process (not the shell script that started it) and kill that. This should terminate the other sub processes. If not, kill those manually.