title: Stop redis server. Neither shutdown nor stop works
body: <p>I want to stop the redis server and it just keeps going and going. I am using redis-2.6.7</p>
  
  <p>Check that it is running:</p>
  
  <pre><code>redis-server
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It says "...bind: Address already in use" so it is already running.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>redis-cli
  redis 127.0.0.1:6379&gt; shutdown
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It just hangs and nothing happens. I break out and check, yes, it is still running.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>redis-server stop
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get "can't open config file 'stop'"</p>
  
  <p>I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>killall redis-server
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Still running.</p>
  
  <p>The reason that I want to stop it is that it is just hanging when I try to set or get a value via Python. So I thought that I would restart it.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>No commands seem to work from redis-cli. I also tried INFO and it just hangs.</p>