Question
How to maintain mongodb config file?
- Posted September 27, 2014
I want to use mongod --dbpath with setParameter but I cannot because I can not stop mongodb on digitalocean. How can I do it?
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You can set the parameter while MongoDB is still running. Connect to MongoDB as an admin user and run the following command:
db.getSiblingDB('admin').runCommand( { setParameter: 1, failIndexKeyTooLong: false } );
You might also need to add it to /etc/mongod.conf or /etc/mongodb.conf (the filename is different depending on what version of mongodb you are running):
setParameter=failIndexKeyTooLong=false
Hello, I am trying to edit mongodb.conf file but I get permission error with the file 644 permission.
You can use
“service mongod stop” or “service mongo stop” or /etc/init.d/mongo stop or /etc/init.d/mongod stop or
check the mongod process & kill it with below command
Killing the existing Mongo processes
for i in ps -ef | egrep 'shardsvr|configsvr|replSet|configdb' | grep -v egrep | awk -F" " '{print $2}'; do kill -9 $i; done
Please refer to my script at http://dbversity.com/mongodb-shard-creation-script/
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I need to use this parameter: “mongod --setParameter failIndexKeyTooLong=false” But without stoping mongodb I can not do it. Else I need mongodb to use my path to DB, it uses /var/lib/mongodb, and doesn’t allow me to change path with mongod --dbpath How to turn mongodb off?