Below are the permissions for /home and /mongod
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 20 Nov 17 05:04 home
drwxr-xr-x. 8 mongod mongod 180 Nov 17 06:29 mongod
even though I am getting below error when I start.
[mongod@mongst01 home]$ sudo service mongod start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start mongod.service
[mongod@mongst01 home]$ sudo service mongod status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status mongod.service
● mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-11-17 07:45:38 UTC; 7s ago
Docs: <a href="https://docs.mongodb.org/manual">https://docs.mongodb.org/manual</a>
Process: 2642 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=2)
Main PID: 2642 (code=exited, status=2)
Nov 17 07:45:38 mongst01 systemd[1]: Started MongoDB Database Server.
Nov 17 07:45:38 mongst01 mongod[2642]: Error reading config file: Permission denied
Nov 17 07:45:38 mongst01 mongod[2642]: try ‘/usr/bin/mongod --help’ for more information
Nov 17 07:45:38 mongst01 systemd[1]: mongod.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Nov 17 07:45:38 mongst01 systemd[1]: Unit mongod.service entered failed state.
Nov 17 07:45:38 mongst01 systemd[1]: mongod.service failed.
[mongod@mongst01 home]$