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zubinmehta
zubinmehta

Reputation: 4533

Unable to change the dbpath in mongodb through mongodb.conf

I am getting the following message
exception in initAndListen std::exception: boost::filesystem::exists: Permission denied: "/vol/mongodb", terminating

in /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log

ls -al /vol/mongodb gives -
drwxrwxrwx 2 mongodb mongodb 4096 2011-08-07 12:10 ./

When I change the dbpath, back to the default, which is /var/lib/mongodb - it works fine.

How do I solve this?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3331

Answers (1)

scttl
scttl

Reputation: 460

I had the same problem initially and found it was caused by the mongodb user not having appropriate permissions on the parent directory.

I'd recommend checking /vol to ensure that the mongodb user can at least read files from that directory. May also need execute permissions too, and I suspect this will hold for each subsequent parent directory up to root.

Upvotes: 9

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