How do I restart redis that I installed with brew?

Question

I used brew to install redis (a key/value store database server) for my node.js app.

brew install redis

However, it seems to disappear and is very volatile. Because I'm using redis as my session store, I need to be able to quickly restart it on my mac when this happens.

ken · Answer 1 · 2015-03-13T20:46:17.457

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brew services expired due to no one want to maintain it. check below: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/28657

check launchctl function instead.

or lunchy

So instead of:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/io.redis.redis-server.plist

you can do this:

lunchy start redis

and:

lunchy ls

references: https://github.com/eddiezane/lunchy

It used to be able to use as below:

brew services restart redis

should be the restart command You want. You can also run

brew services list

which will give you list of your brew services.

edited Mar 13 '15 at 20:46

answered Nov 13 '13 at 13:51

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I had to re-install redis with brew to get it in the startup plist, then this worked fine – Stuart Nelson Jun 26 '14 at 15:27
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"Warning: brew services is unsupported and will be removed soon." – user72923 Sep 13 '14 at 17:25
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It's pretty dumb to remove such useful shortcut. But it's buggy by the way. I can stop redis with `brew services`, but after that I'm unable to start it again. – Phuong Nguyen Oct 04 '14 at 05:50
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brew doesn't support the "services" verb anymore as of 0.9.5 – oDDsKooL Oct 23 '14 at 06:38
Use the answer below using `launchctl`, now that brew doesn't support "services" anymore – Daniel Magliola Feb 19 '15 at 14:43
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Please note that brew **does** support the the services command now via a tap. See the answer below, it is a more relevant answer now. – GrayedFox Nov 03 '16 at 15:50

score 46 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 07 '15 at 22:10

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As of Dec-7-2015 You can use brew services.

You need to brew tap homebrew/services and then thw following will work as expected:

install brew install redis

start brew services start redis

stop brew services stop redis

restart brew services restart redis

More info here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-services

answered Dec 07 '15 at 22:10

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conflicting answer above says `brew services` is deprecated. – chovy Dec 08 '15 at 10:20
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@chovy They were deprecated because of lack of maintenance, but are now back again as a **brew tap**. As you can see last commit is from _27 days ago_. – microspino Dec 08 '15 at 11:28
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This is a more relevant and up to date answer now than the above ones, and faster to implement than going manual `launchctl` way. – GrayedFox Nov 03 '16 at 15:51
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It's 2017 and I'm using Brew v1.3.6 and this works perfectly fine. – Ryan Taylor Oct 27 '17 at 21:42

score 24 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 06:45

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Brew doesn't support the services command anymore.

The recommended way is to use os x's launchctl command.

First you need to setup redis as a service managed by launchctl:

$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Then you can use launchctl load/ launchctl unload to start/stop the service:

$ # start redis server
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
$
$ # stop redis server
$ launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist

answered Oct 23 '14 at 06:45

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brew 0.9.5 support services, here they are $ brew --version Homebrew 0.9.5 (git revision bf22; last commit 2016-03-06) $ brew services list Name Status User Plist postgresql stopped redis stopped $ – AMIC MING Mar 22 '16 at 19:14

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 13 '12 at 09:32

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I found all these options listed in brew package (brew info redis) to be very buggy. For example redis throws a bunch of errors if it isn't started with root. I ended up just doing the direct call with sudo and removing launchctl files.

sudo redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

I was hoping there was a way to easily restart redis from the command line, but that doesn't seem possible. Therefore, I run with daemon mode set to 'no' and watch it log to stdout, then I can kill it easily.

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answered Nov 13 '12 at 09:28

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I've appended this command with '& disown' to background and detach from the process – Ben Simpson Jan 02 '14 at 19:36
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See the other answer that uses `launchctl`, it works and is supported now by the brew recipe. – oDDsKooL Oct 23 '14 at 06:46

Miguel Coder · Answer 5 · 2018-07-24T17:25:15.910

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For Homebrew 1.5.14

redis-server

edited Jul 24 '18 at 17:25

answered May 01 '18 at 17:21

Miguel Coder

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Welcome to Super User! This duplicates information present in [another answer](https://superuser.com/a/1010357/461558)- can you differentiate it at all? :) – bertieb May 01 '18 at 17:44
Now it's the same as [the accepted answer](//superuser.com/a/504957)!! (You really should just delete this answer.) – robinCTS Jul 27 '18 at 03:58
no it's not. He included the path to a conf file. Clearly not the same, and not required. I know I don't want to type the path to a conf file every time I start and stop Redis and I think anyone else reading this(besides you) would find that valuable. – Miguel Coder Jul 27 '18 at 18:31

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 15 '20 at 01:50

If you are successfully running brew services start redis or brew services restart redis, then seeing "Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Connection refused" when attempting to run redis-cli, you should verify the existence of your redis configuration file.

You can run touch /usr/local/etc/redis.conf or similar to create an empty configuration file.

Then run brew services restart redis and redis-cli, then voila!

127.0.0.1:6379> PING
PONG

How do I restart redis that I installed with brew?

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