MongoDB Service Will Not Start After Initial Setup

Question

I am running Fedora 20 and installed MongoDB per the Red Hat installation guide on the official documentation. I was able to run the mongod daemon as a service with

Answer 1

If you’re starting mongod as a service using:

sudo service mongod start

Make sure the directories defined for logpath, dbpath, and pidfilepath in your mongod.conf exist and are owned by mongod:mongod.