Stop or restart beanstalkd manually on command line

Question

Beanstalkd is running on my Ubuntu VPS. I don't know how to stop or shut down the beandstalkd server. I want to stop the server manually on the command line.

I've found monitoring tools and a configurations script, but no commands for the commandline.

Answer 1

Beanstalkd is normally run with the standard OS-level tools (so, on Ubuntu, upstart). There are a number of example configuration scripts for LaunchD, systemD and Upstart in the Beanstalkd repo.

For an Ubuntu system, you would copy the Upstart .conf file, making any required tweaks to the command line you need (to enable the binary log, for example) and drop it into the /etc/init/ directory. Then the usual start, restart, stop & status commands would be able to control the Beanstalkd daemon, and it could be auto-started on bootup.

If it's not already under upstart control, then you can simply kill the process, like anything else, by finding the process ID (pgrep -lf beanstalkd).