stop -- Command to shutdown the Core Lightning node.

SYNOPSIS

stop

DESCRIPTION

The stop is a RPC command to shut off the Core Lightning node.

RETURN VALUE

On success, an object is returned, containing:

result (string) (always "Shutdown complete") (added v24.05)

AUTHOR

Vincenzo Palazzo vincenzo.palazzo@protonmail.com wrote the initial version of this man page, but many others did the hard work of actually implementing this rpc command.

SEE ALSO

lightning-graceful(7)

RESOURCES

Main web site: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

EXAMPLES

Example 1:

Request:

lightning-cli stop

{
  "id": "example:stop#1",
  "method": "stop",
  "params": {}
}

Response:

{
  "result": "Shutdown complete"
}