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James Newton
James Newton

Reputation: 7082

Starting MongoDB v3.2.10 on startup on Ubuntu 16.04 server

I have set up a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 server on a VirtualBox VM. The only other custom application I have installed in NginX. I want to get MongoDB to launch automatically when the server reboots.

The official MongoDB installation page that I have been following tells me to create a file at /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service, with the following contents:

[Unit]
Description=High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
After=network.target
Documentation=https://docs.mongodb.org/manual

[Service]
User=mongodb
Group=mongodb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

However, this file already existed, with more entries, so I did not touch it.

The DigitalOcean tutorial tells me to create a file with almost the same contents at /etc/systemd/system/mongod.service (etc not lib and mongodb rather than mongod; Documentation and Group are missing). This tutorial also suggests using...

sudo systemctl enable mongodb

... "to enable automatically starting MongoDB when the system starts". But I get this error:

Failed to execute operation: Invalid argument

I have tried both techniques, but when I reboot the server, MongoDB does not start.

I've also seen a mention of a tool to create an init script at /opt/mongodb-mms-automation/bin/mongodb-mms-automation-make-init-scripts, but this was not installed when I followed the instructions on the MongoDB site.

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1695

Answers (1)

Thomas R. Koll
Thomas R. Koll

Reputation: 3139

Your error message isn't very helpful but sudo journalctl -f -n 200 will give you some insight into what might go wrong.

Do you have the mongodb user and group on your system?

Upvotes: 1

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