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Sometimes mongo doesn't start up correctly, and there's a meme floating around that people can run:
sudo mongod --repair --dbpath /edx/var/mongo/mongodb
to fix their instance when Mongo refuses to start up because of database synching problems. This is good.
But people have also been manually invoking mongo like this:
sudo mongod --dbpath /edx/var/mongo/mongodb
I contend that this inferior to invoking mongo like this:
sudo mongod -f /etc/mongodb.conf
This will make sure that the same database gets used, but will also put logs in the places you expect them.