Generate mongod conf for tarball installtion

Question

Hi There,

I have installed mongodb using tgz package on centos 7.5. While starting up the mongodb i have mentioned custom location for dbpath and logpath along with --fork option. Now i want to generate mongodb.conf file from mongodb console because i dont see mongodb.conf file in /etc/mongodb.conf or dbpath or where extracted tar package or in /usr/local/etc/ location. Could you suggest here how to generate mongodb.conf file auto from mongo console.

command used to start mongodb - mongod --dbpath --logpath --fork

Answer 1

Hi,@kailas,

To run a mangod process as a daemon (i.e.fork), and write its output to a log file, use the --fork and --logpath options. You must create the log directory; however, mangod will create the log file if it does not exist.

The following command starts mongod as a daemon and records log output to /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log.

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

I hope this will be helpful

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