My bad, I had one extra trailing slash on the original location. Added it 
again, rebooted and voila it works.

On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 4:13:07 PM UTC+3, Duncaen wrote:
>
> Ok that looks strange, did you enabled the service with a symbolic link?
> Take a look at our runit usage 
> <http://www.voidlinux.eu/usage/runit/#enabling-a-service> page.
>
> Am Montag, 24. August 2015 15:08:25 UTC+2 schrieb Frankie Wild:
>>
>> Thanks, here is the output of the latter. Still no clue, I haven't 
>> changed anything in the default mongodb.conf.
>>
>> runsvdir -P /run/runit/runsvdir/current log: xist runsv mongodb: fatal: 
>> unable to start ./run: file does not exist runsv mongodb: fatal: unable to 
>> start
>>
>>
>> On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 4:01:06 PM UTC+3, Duncaen wrote:
>>>
>>> Try "ps -ef | grep runsvdir" and checkout the last bit of the runsvdir 
>>> process, there should be an error message.
>>>
>>> Am Montag, 24. August 2015 14:56:07 UTC+2 schrieb Frankie Wild:
>>>>
>>>> sudo sv start mongodb
>>>> timeout: down: mongodb: 0s, normally up, want up
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 3:33:41 PM UTC+3, Duncaen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I dont know what you are doing, could you provide the commands and the 
>>>>> output you get.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am Montag, 24. August 2015 14:19:36 UTC+2 schrieb Frankie Wild:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So here is the story. I have installed mongodb and added it to 
>>>>>> /var/service/ but it's down after a reboot. It timeouts when trying to load 
>>>>>> it manually.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The var/log/mongodb folder is empty...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone experienced this or got a suggestion ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>