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James Simpson
Asked: 2011-06-13 11:08:55 +0800 CST

How to auto-start MongoDB on CentOS reboot?

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How do I setup MongoDB so that it will start back up automatically after a server reboot? This is on CentOS 5.5.

I start it with the following command, but if the server reboots, I have to login to SSH and run that again to get it going (not that big of a deal really, but would be nice to know that this isn't necessary if I don't have access to the server).

./mongod --config ./mongodb.config --fork --logpath /var/log/mongodb.log --logappend

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your best bet is to install the rpms provided by 10gen (makers of mongodb)

    http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/CentOS+and+Fedora+Packages

    That will install a init.d script for you that you can run

    //mongod service

    chkconfig mongod on
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  2. You need to write an "init script" to start the service when the system boots. A quick Google search for "writing init scripts redhat" will turn up several useful references. This seemed like a reasonable start:

    If you want a quick-and-dirty solution, you can simply add your command to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which gets executed after all the other init scripts have completed.

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