Gracefully stop daemon?

Question

Is there a preferred way to graceful shutdown a multichain daemon? When I've been doing my testing, I've just been finding the process ID using `ps aux | grep multichain` and killing the process from the command line. Is there a better, more graceful way to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, issue the stop API command - that's a much better way!

Answer 2

you can use the command-line utility to stop
multichain-cli <chainname> stop

example :
$multichain-cli mchain -datadir=~/chaindir/  stop
{"method":"stop","params":[],"id":1,"chain_name":"mchain"}

MultiChain server stopping
$