Permissions Issue When Upgrading MongoDB with Custom dbPath or logPath

In Linux distributions, installing MongoDB for the first time using rpm/dpkg will create a conf file, dbPath, logPath and the init scripts on default paths. This includes the creation of a mongod user/group and provides mongod permissions to both the default dbPath (/var/lib/mongo) and logPath (/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log). Then you edit the settings in the config file […]
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