How do I undo the ipfs daemon command?

[Mithgol]

How do I shot web terminate the unixweb daemon? Is there any ipfs daemon stop to undo ipfs daemon?

[ghost]

You send it Ctrl-C to terminate gracefully, and a second Ctrl-C to terminate immediately.

[jbenet]

@Mithgol or kill $pid or kill -9 $pid

[jbenet]

(i suppose it may be convenient to have an ipfs daemon stop or something, for scripts and so on, but not 100% convinced yet).

[Mithgol]

@jbenet Would you recommend taskkill /pid processID /f /t on Windows, or without /f, or without /t, or without both?

[ligi]

+1 for ipfs daemon stop
use-case: I run the daemon via gomobile and there is no shell for kill commands or to send ctrl-c

[jbenet]

After speaking with @ligi, it is clear that many applications will need to be able to trigger deamon to exit through the api.

i'd be in favor of a ipfs daemon stop

[ligi]

that's great - would also be great to have a way to query the status of the daemon ( z.b. inactive, initializing, initialized ) - currently e.g. the initializing state is hard to detect AFAIK

[Kubuxu]

It is hard to detect as the peer discovery and inital connections run before API is started. There is very old issue about that: ipfs/kubo#973

Which means that you can't query daemon information until it started.

The ipfs daemon stop could be created by creating pid file inside a repo structure, it wouldn't be that hard to do.

Then, IMO, we should provided build in daemonisation of the daemon (forking mode).

[xznhj8129]

Seriously, we don't have this yet? Come on...

[alexgarciac]

Seriously needed... ipfs daemon stop

[whyrusleeping]

There are quite a bit of other things that have taken priority, I'll try and get this prioritized soon. That said, we do accept PRs ;)

[hsanjuan]

Unless you are in a situation like ligi describes (exec-ing the daemon inside an Android app), there are multiple workarounds for this. One is using a systemd service as shown at https://github.com/ipfs/examples/tree/master/examples/init to start/stop ipfs, which will additionally also collect your logs.

[xznhj8129]

...and on windows?

[hsanjuan]

I don't use windows, but http://tweaks.com/windows/39559/kill-processes-from-command-prompt/ says you can do something like taskkill /IM ipfs. There are shell aliases or you can put it in a script called ipfsstop.cmd.

That said, I don't know if exit is handled correctly in this case or ipfs will be killed immediately. Can you test?

[noxonsu]

taskkill /IM ipfs.exe /f

this work for me. But what about /Users/.../repo.lock file? How to "unlock" him? I try this, but not working

function getUserHome() {
 return process.env[(process.platform == 'win32') ? 'USERPROFILE' : 'HOME'];
}

if (fs.existsSync(getUserHome()+"/.ipfs/repo.lock")) {
fs.unlink(getUserHome()+"/.ipfs/repo.lock");
} 

[madavieb]

This issue has been moved to https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/how-do-i-undo-the-ipfs-daemon-command/443.