How do you start and stop the Spotlight server in Yosemite? There are many forums answering this question for previous versions of MAC OSX, but 10.10 doesn't seem to have the service 'com.apple.metadata.mds.plist' in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. It has 3 others (com.apple.metadata.mds.index.plist, com.apple.metadata.mds.scan.plist and com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump.plist).

When I try any mdutil commands I get:

-07 08:55:25.673 mdutil[2360:239343] Metadata.framework [Error]: mdsCopyStorePaths failed: (268435459) (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Spotlight server is disabled.
I'm on 10.10, and I have this service.

$ ls -l /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1.6K Jul 30 01:33 com.apple.metadata.mds.index.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1.6K Jul 30 01:33 com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   922B Jul 30 01:33 com.apple.metadata.mds.scan.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   856B Jul 30 01:33 com.apple.metadata.mds.spindump.plist


The you can load/unload with this command:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist