# How to restart Node-red on ubuntu

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465>\
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**Created:** [31 March 2021 14:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465 "2021-03-31T14:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anthony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Anthony](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Anthony)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2021 14:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/1 "2021-03-31T14:32:34Z")

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Hi All,

I'm following [this guide](https://nodered.org/docs/creating-nodes/first-node) to creating my first custom node. In the guide it states that ' Any changes to the node’s file can be picked up by simply restarting Node-RED' but does not provide any instruction on how to restart node red.

How can i restart node red when running on ubuntu?

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2021 14:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/2 "2021-03-31T14:48:04Z")

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Try opening a terminal window and entering `node-red-restart` and see if that works

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**Author:** ![Anthony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Anthony](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Anthony)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2021 14:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/3 "2021-03-31T14:57:42Z")

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Unfortunately that is not recognised. Only way I have been able to restart my has been to restart the PC.

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2021 15:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/4 "2021-03-31T15:03:28Z")

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Does  
`node-red-stop`  
Then  
`node-red-start`  
Work?

How did you install - did you used the official script?

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2021 15:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/5 "2021-03-31T15:06:06Z")

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hw do you start node-red? if youstart it in a terminal window, you should be able to get to that window and do a CTRL-C which should stop NR then enter `node-red` to start it again

[https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/windows#running-on-windows](https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/windows#running-on-windows)

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2021 17:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/7 "2021-03-31T17:40:19Z")

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no - node-red restart will start node-red with a flow called restart :-)... the command is node-red-restart.

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [28 May 2021 20:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/8 "2021-05-28T20:06:43Z")

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Is Node-RED run via systemtd? In other words, it starts automatically on boot-up?

If so, you can restart it using `systemctl restart node-red` (note that the node-red part could be different if you created the init script yourself or used my alternate installer).

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2021 20:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-restart-node-red-on-ubuntu/43465/9 "2021-07-27T20:07:28Z")

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