how to stop rabbitmq servers
You have a couple of options:
- First, try shutting RabbitMQ down gracefully with the init.d script
sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop - If that doesn't work, use
ps -eaf | grep erlto 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.
I just started using RabbitMQ today and learned that you can cleanly shutdown a rabbitmq-server process by using the command rabbitmqctl stop.
This may not apply to your situation since you don't seem to be the person who launched rabbitmq on your server in the first place but if you have rabbitmqctl in your path, you can try using it to attempt a clean shutdown.
This worked for me (on Linux), when stopping gracefully didn't:
sudo pkill beam.smp
where beam.smp is name of parent RabbitMQ process in most recent version.