Question

How do I start or stop the FogBugz Maintenance Service on Linux/Mac?

Answer 1

FogBugz 6

Check if the maintenance service is running

ps -efw | grep fogbugzmaintd

Stop and start the maintenance service

• Run the following commands

  cd (your fogbugz install)
cd Accessories
./fogbugzmaintd stop
./fogbugzmaintd start
  

FogBugz 7

Check if the maintenance service is running

ps -efw | grep heartbeat.exe

Stop the maintenance service

1. Find the process ID of the service using the command above

2. Run the following command (where 1234 is the PID)

   sudo kill 1234

Start the maintenance service

• Run the following commands

  cd (your fogbugz install)
cd bin
sudo ./fogbugzctl stop
sudo ./fogbugzctl start
  

FogBugz 7.3 and up

Stop the maintenance service

sudo ./fogbugzctl stop-hb

Start the maintenance service

sudo ./fogbugzctl start-hb

Answer 2

You can start and stop FogBugz using fogbugzctl (or start-fogbugz and stop-fogbugz) from the bin directory, but there's no direct way to start or stop only the maintenance service (heartbeat). An unsupported way to do so is to kill the mono process running heartbeat.exe.