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Databases

Mathew Kurian
Mathew Kurian
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Posted by Mathew Kurian
Mathew Kurian
4,698 Points

"mongod" command won't work, but "mongo" will

drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwl_BDx-HIfcc1FlVHpfamF2d2s/view?usp=sharing

I have a Macbook Pro with El Capitan. I installed mongodb with macports, which is similar to homebrew. I've followed all of the instructions and I've made sure to change the user permissions to /data/db. Does anyone have any idea of what's wrong with my mongodb installation?

Above is a link to my google drive with a photo of the error report.

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kareem Pierre
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kareem Pierre
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kareem Pierre
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kareem Pierre
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Since mongo works you probably have mongod running already. if you open your activity monitor, search for mongod and close any that are open. Then try again in the terminal and see if this works.

Mathew Kurian
Mathew Kurian
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Mathew Kurian
Mathew Kurian
4,698 Points

Hey kareem Pierre , so I tried that and it wouldn't work. I looked on activity monitor and I found the mongod process. I tried to force quit it, but it didn't work. So then I did a sigkill on the process' pid. And it would just come back a second later. Any idea what to do? I was really looking forward to learning mongo too.

kareem Pierre
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kareem Pierre
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Am am not to sure how macports works, but you could try uninstalling and using homebrew. Although since mongod is already working you should be fine with following the course, as long as you have access to the mongo shell. If this is not an option am thinking it has to do with how macports installed it. I will do a little bit of searching.