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Hi All,
I have just switched over from a systemd distro and just trying to get my bearings.
i am trying to run a mongodb service and i am getting the following -

[andrewcz@andrewcz-pc ~]$
[andrewcz@andrewcz-pc ~]$ sudo sv start mongodb
[sudo] password for andrewcz:
fail: mongodb: unable to change to service directory: file does not exist
[andrewcz@andrewcz-pc ~]$ sv status mongodb
fail: mongodb: unable to change to service directory: file does not exist
[andrewcz@andrewcz-pc ~]$

i am not sure how to provision the service
Thank you in advance.
Andrew

Usually for packages providing a service a proper runit package is available i.e. for nginx that would be nginx-runit. However for mongodb this does not seem to be the case yet. Basically you will need at the very least to create the directory
/etc/runit/sv/mongodb
and an executable run file inside with this content:

#!/bin/bash
exec mongod [your run options] 2>$1

If you don't have any logging tools running and would like to have logging, then you also need to create directory
/etc/runit/sv/mongodb/log
with an executable run file inside with this content:

#!/bin/bash
[ ! -d /var/log/mongodb ] && mkdir -p /var/log/mongodb
exec svlogd /var/log/mongodb

This will write log files of mongod process to
/var/log/mongodb
directory, which will be created if non-existent.

For the created service to be available it needs to be enabled first:

ln -s /etc/runit/sv/mongodb /run/runit/service/mongodb

Consult the Artix wiki (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Runit) and Runit homepage (http://smarden.org/runit/) for more information.

Sorry for the inconvenience!
Since I had finals, I can't do it. Hopefully we can add new package for MongoDB's runit service scripts no later than this weekend.

░▒▓   │   ~ ▓▒░ ln -s /etc/runit/sv/mongodb /run/runit/service/mongodb                                                  ░▒▓ ✔ │ 07:11:42   ▓▒░
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/run/runit/service/mongodb': No such file or directory

Try using mysql-runit as mongodb is suppose to be a drop in replacement

No that's for mariadb. This is different.


Unfortunately, you're a bit out of luck here. Mongodb moved to some weird proprietary license sometime last year I believe. It was removed from Arch and Artix's repos completely after that. If you want an init script for it, you'll have to write it yourself.

Woops, yeah was thinking of that one :D