diff --git a/attributes/dbconfig.rb b/attributes/dbconfig.rb
index 5ae4df35..346ca00d 100644
--- a/attributes/dbconfig.rb
+++ b/attributes/dbconfig.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 case node['platform_family']
 when 'rhel', 'fedora'
   default['mongodb']['config']['fork'] = true
+  default['mongodb']['config']['pidfilepath'] = '/var/run/mongodb/mongodb.pid'
 else
   default['mongodb']['config']['fork'] = false
 end