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Start/Stop MongoDB Using These Aliases

Posted by: Bruce Snyder on 04/05/2012

Just a quick note on working with MongoDB on Linux/Unix.

Recently I needed some ready-made commands to start and stop MongoDB that I could just copy/paste and go, so I created the following aliases for my Bash profile that did the trick. I use these for developing with MongoDB on a MacBook Pro exactly the same way that I make use of aliases for PostgreSQL and MySQL. These are mainly notes for myself for posterity but I'm hopeful that they may also help someone else as well:


# Start up MongoDB using a forked process and log appending 
alias mongostart='/var/mongodb/bin/mongod --fork --dbpath /var/mongodb/data/db --logpath /var/mongodb/log/mongodb.log --logappend' 

# Shut down MongoDB safely using the soft kill on the PID 
alias mongostop="kill -2 `ps aux | grep [m]ongo* | awk '{ print $2 }'`"

Put these in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile, reload the profile and away you go. Obviously you will need to adjust the paths to suit your own environment.

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Bruce Snyder is a veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. With over a decade of experience, Bruce has worked with a wide range of technologies including Java EE, Enterprise Messaging and Service Oriented Integration. In addition to his role as a senior software engineer at SpringSource, Bruce is also an Apache Member, a co-founder of Apache Geronimo and a developer for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and Apache ServiceMix. He is the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo, Beginning Spring Framework 2 both from Wrox Press and is currently co-authoring ActiveMQ In Action for Manning Publications. Bruce also serves as a member of various JCP expert groups and is a recognized international speaker at industry conferences. Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family.

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