To launch Riak CS in the background, enter:

sudo riak-cs start

To run Riak CS with an interactive Erlang console:

sudo riak-cs console

When Riak CS is running, the Riak CS process appears in the process list. To check for the Riak CS process, enter:

ps -ef|grep riak-cs

To stop Riak CS, enter:

sudo riak-cs stop

You can use the command:

sudo riak-cs attach

to attach and obtain an interactive console to a running instance of Riak CS.

You can check the liveness of your Riak CS installation with the riak-cs ping command, which should return pong if Riak CS is up and able to successfully communicate with Riak.

riak-cs ping