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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
EDIT: This answer is deprecated, it applied to an old version of the bitcoind client. Apparently RPC functionality is now removed. Please look at the other answers instead.
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.
Error: Command line contains unexpected token 'stop', see bitcoind -h for a list of options.. The correct way to stop bitcoind is bitcoin-cli-stop command (see the other answer with higher vote count).
bitcoin-cli stop. Note the last space as opposed to a hyphen.
Apr 17, 2020 at 18:44
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.
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.
if you started it using 'bitcoind -daemon' and you are using version 10 or above, then use 'bitcoin-cli stop'
bitcoin-init an initialisation process to bitcoind? Because that is my process in top.
In my case, It works that ./bitcoin-cli -regtest stop
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
This worked for me:
bitcoin-cli -rpcuser=[username] -rpcpassword=[password] -rpcconnect=[ip] stop
If using testnet, try ./bitcoin-cli -testnet stop
./bitcoin-cli stop is definitely not enough when running 0.18rc on testnet.