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Surprised this one hasn't been asked yet.
But how / what is the recommended best practice for shutting down bitcoind ?
Right now I'm manually killing the process with either sudo kill {pid} or if this is failing (like just now) using sudo pkill -9 -f bitcoind
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I guess using bitcoind stop. I recommend this approach as killing the process could end you up with a corrupted database, from what I have experienced. Use bitcoind --help for all options and bitcoind help for all JSON-RPC commands.
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I'm not sure if bitcoind stop still works as RPC with newer releases, since somewhere in help sections it says RPC funcionality removed from bitcoind.
Try bitcoin-cli stop.
Does not work with my setup. I think first of all to be able to use bitcoin-cli you have to start bitcoind with option server=1. I did this and still bitcoin-cli getinfo is returning an error. So I suspect bitcoin-cli does not work properly. I have a process in top that is called bitcoin-init. I am not sure if this is the right process that should be active after I started bitcoind or if this some sort of initialisation process and since it uses 100% of my Raspberry CPU it might as well hang and this might be the root of the problem. I appreciate any input. – Ben – 2019-08-28T10:18:54.987
5Confirmed bitcoin-cli stop works in version 11. – Jonathan Cross – 2015-09-17T12:42:11.403
2Still works in 2017! Use this. – iaforek – 2017-10-23T08:14:27.450
does not work... I did ./xxxcoin-cli stop but nothing happen after that and ./xxxcoind also does not stopped. – creator – 2018-02-21T12:29:05.123
1Yes, it still works. – Ken Sharp – 2018-08-01T23:17:07.970
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if you started it using 'bitcoind -daemon' and you are using version 10 or above, then use 'bitcoin-cli stop'
Does not work for me. What could be the reason? Does the daemon need to be started as a server? Is bitcoin-init an initialisation process to bitcoind? Because that is my process in top. – Ben – 2019-08-28T10:22:54.020
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Make sure you specify the same options that you normally use when running bitcoin, for example, if you use a different datadir:
cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon
bitcoin-cli -datadir=C:\Bitcoin stop
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In my case, It works that ./bitcoin-cli -regtest stop
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If using testnet, try ./bitcoin-cli -testnet stop
Good thinking. Missed that. – ManreeRist – 2013-10-11T19:11:13.817
7This doesn't work anymore:
Error: Command line contains unexpected token 'stop', see bitcoind -h for a list of options.. The correct way to stopbitcoindisbitcoin-cli-stopcommand (see the other answer with higher vote count). – iaforek – 2017-10-23T08:10:49.497