Cannot kill mongodb process

I am trying everything but every time I kill the mongod process it starts a new one in a different PID. I even uninstalled it, but still I have the same behavior.

When I run this I get

ps -ef | grep mongod
999 8260 8242 1 01:24 ? 00:00:01 mongod --replSet=bigchain-rs
alomejor 8436 5209 0 01:26 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto mongod

So then I try sudo kill 8260 and a new instance of mongo is created in another PID. Also tried sudo kill -2 8260

When I try mongod --shutdown I get:

There doesn't seem to be a server running with dbpath: /data/db

Might be because of the 999 user?

1 Answer

Have you tried terminate the service itself:

mongod --shutdown

If you are in macOS and using brew:

brew services stop mongodb