Note that mongod --shutdown not available in latest version

[jcrben]

Per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18835603/mongodb-shutdown-option-unavailable this option has been unavailable since at least v2.4.5.

Maybe we're missing something but I get the same message. If it is truly removed, it seems reasonable to remove the text entirely and I can update the pull request accordingly.

[mpaik]

--shutdown works fine in mongod 3.0.0. Cannot reproduce.

[jcrben]

Any idea why so many people are getting "error command line: unknown option shutdown
use --help for help" when they try running this?

There's a few hundred views and 2 votes for an answer on Stackoverflow which says: "Since the "--shutdown" option is not available in newer versions of mongo, you now have to kill the process manually"

[schmalliso]

@jcrben What OS are you using? I'm able to reproduce your issues on OS X, and --shutdown doesn't appear in my --help output, while @mpaik is on a Linux machine, and does have it.

[mpaik]

This definitely works on Linux, and the mongod documentation page on all published manual versions from 2.2 through 3.0 clearly indicate that --shutdown is only available on Linux. The page the pull request is against also says "From the Linux command line" on all published manual versions from 2.4 through 3.0, though an ambiguity exists in 2.2. It is possible that an older version of the manual had a bug, but the documentation is currently correct as written, as far as I can tell.

[jcrben]

Yeah, I'm using OS X. I guess I glossed over that Linux bit after I saw the Stack Overflow page. The API documentation is explicit while the tutorial page is clear but not quite definitive. My bad. I'll clarify this on the Stack Overflow thread in case anyone is confused.