Installed memcached via homebrew, how to start and stop server?

ruby memcached homebrew
Blankman picture Blankman · Jun 6, 2011 · Viewed 53.3k times · Source

I have memcached installed via homebrew.

  1. how do I start/stop the server?

  2. Any command-line tools to interact with memcached?

  3. does homebrew have a way of removing a package?

Answer

clee picture clee · Jun 6, 2011

When you installed it, it put a file named homebrew.mxcl.memcached.plist in /usr/local/Cellar/memcached/$version/; you copy that file into ~/Library/LaunchAgents and then tell launchd to start it with launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.memcached.plist.

If you were watching the console carefully during the brew install command, it should have said something about doing these exact steps. If you run brew info it'll re-print this information, e.g. brew info memcached.

You should probably read https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage -- it has more useful documentation including the brew remove command which will remove the package if you decide you don't want it.

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