Restarting the mosquito broker

Question

I have installed mosquito broker on my mac using brew install mosquitto.

Normally I don't give any commands to start the mosquitto server. It is started automatically when I switch on my mac.

I have verified that it is running by using the command ps -ef | grep mosquitto, which gives the following output

501   209   153   0  2:20PM ??       0:06.93/usr/local/opt/mosquitto/sbin/mosquitto -c /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
501  2559  1007   0 10:36AM ttys001    0:00.00 grep mosquitto    
501   865   815   0  2:32PM ttys003    0:00.86 mosquitto_sub -h 127.0.0.1 -t esb.test2

Then I stopped the server by killing the mosquitto process using kill -9 above-pid.

Now I would like to know how can I restart the server again from command line, but without restarting my mac.

Answer 1

If you've installed mosquitto from homebrew, you can use launchctl to control the service, e.g.

$ launchctl load /usr/local/Cellar/mosquitto/1.4.2/homebrew.mxcl.mosquitto.plist

$ launchctl unload /usr/local/Cellar/mosquitto/1.4.2/homebrew.mxcl.mosquitto.plist

$ launchctl start homebrew.mxcl.mosquitto
$ launchctl stop homebrew.mxcl.mosquitto