diff --git a/config/emba_updater.init b/config/emba_updater.init
index 8018f7a12..a0737fa4f 100644
--- a/config/emba_updater.init
+++ b/config/emba_updater.init
@@ -3,29 +3,34 @@
 # Written by Michael Messner and Pascal Eckmann for EMBA https://github.com/e-m-b-a/emba
 
 BASE_PATH="$(pwd)"
+LOG_DIR="/var/log"
 
+[ -d EMBA_INSTALL_PATH ] || exit 0
+[ -d EMBA_INSTALL_PATH/external/trickest-cve ] || exit 0
 [ -x EMBA_INSTALL_PATH/external/cve-search/sbin/db_updater.py ] || exit 0
 [ -x /etc/init.d/redis-server ] || exit 0
+[ -d "$LOG_DIR" ] || exit 0
 
 if command -v cve_searchsploit > /dev/null ; then
-  echo "[*] EMBA update - cve_searchsploit update" | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
-  cve_searchsploit -u | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+  echo "[*] EMBA update - cve_searchsploit update" | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
+  cve_searchsploit -u | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 fi
 
-echo "[*] EMBA update - main repository" | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+echo "[*] EMBA update - main repository" | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 cd EMBA_INSTALL_PATH || exit
-git pull | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+git pull | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 cd "$BASE_PATH" || exit
 
-echo "[*] EMBA update - cve-search update" | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
-/etc/init.d/redis-server start | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+echo "[*] EMBA update - cve-search update" | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
+service mongod start | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
+/etc/init.d/redis-server start | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 
-EMBA_INSTALL_PATH/external/cve-search/sbin/db_updater.py -v | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+EMBA_INSTALL_PATH/external/cve-search/sbin/db_updater.py -v | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 
-echo "[*] EMBA update - update local trickest database" | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+echo "[*] EMBA update - update local trickest database" | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 cd EMBA_INSTALL_PATH/external/trickest-cve || exit
-git pull | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+git pull | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
 cd "$BASE_PATH" || exit
 
-echo "[*] EMBA update - update local docker image" | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
-docker pull embeddedanalyzer/emba | tee -a /var/log/emba_update.log
+echo "[*] EMBA update - update local docker image" | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log
+docker pull embeddedanalyzer/emba | tee -a "$LOG_DIR"/emba_update.log