How to maintain mongodb config file?

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/

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