The default mongod instance is called "mongod" on RPM distros.
When running standalone, just re-use that name rather than creating one called "mongodb". Otherwise, you wind up with /etc/sysconfig/mongod and mongodb, two sets of init scripts, two sets of logs in /var/log/mongod, etc.
Configure the mongod instance name at the attribute level
commandline Merge pull request #77 from juliandunn

Use default "mongod" instance name when running standalone

Conflicts:
    recipes/default.rb
    recipes/replicaset.rb
merge develop into master #64