diff --git a/Termfile b/Termfile
index b594480e3..58be4ff18 100644
--- a/Termfile
+++ b/Termfile
@@ -5,15 +5,14 @@
 # If you do
 #    terminitor start
 # from the Diaspora root directory, it will open a new terminal window with
-# 4 tabs: mongo, redis, resque, and jasmine.
+# 3 tabs: redis, resque, and jasmine.
 #
 # You need to install the terminitor gem. It's not in the Gemfile because it
 # causes problems on some flavors of linux.
 #    gem install terminitor
 #
-# You should set MONGO_ROOT and REDIS_ROOT before running terminitor start.
+# You should set REDIS_ROOT before running terminitor start.
 # You might want to do that in your .bash_profile.
-#    export MONGO_ROOT=/full/path/to/mongo/without/the/bin
 #    export REDIS_ROOT=/full/path/to/redis/without/the/bin
 # You can also set DIASPORA_ROOT in a similar way if you don't want it to be
 # the directory this file is in.
@@ -28,13 +27,9 @@ def get_var_for(env_var_name)
   end
 end
 
-before { system "sudo ls" } # this ensures mongo and redis can start right away
+before { system "sudo ls" } # this ensures redis can start right away
 
 window do
-  tab :name => "mongod" do
-    run "cd #{get_var_for('MONGO_ROOT')}"
-    run "sudo ./bin/mongod"
-  end
   tab :name => "redis" do
     run "cd #{get_var_for('REDIS_ROOT')}"
     run "sudo ./bin/redis-server"