MongoDB Enterprise > mongo admin --eval ‘db.shutdownServer()’
2019-11-14T19:12:29.531+0000 E QUERY [thread1] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement @(shell):1:6
Any help?
I’m trying to complete Chapter 1: The Mongod. This command was copied from the lecture notes provided.
Good man! 
Now for your problem! You need to run the command outside the mongo shell.
Note the instructions say to connect to the mongo shell…
Now, After following your instruction, I was able to shutdown the server when I exited the shell and issued the shut down command, as show in the below screen shot. I did this a couple of times to get the hang of it… now when I tried it a third time, the database is not shutting down.
Here is the command I run at the command prompt.
Here is the screen of the mongod that is running after I issue the above command…
Yeah, that’s wrong. You can’t issue mongo inside a mongo shell. However, I don’t think both commands are connected… compare it with the video.
However, here’s an alternative way of shutting down the server from inside a mongo shell:
use admin
db.shutdownServer()
Are you sure it didn’t shutdown? Try it again, run show dbs and let’s see the result.
It’s shutdown! 
Ignore the prompt you’re seeing. If you can’t run anything from inside the shell then the server is down.
