On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Robert Campbell wrote: > Sorry, I screwed that up. I saw the d as b for some reason. Here's the > results from -d: > > root@default:~# ps -A | grep couchdb >  4389 ?        00:00:00 couchdb >  4419 ?        00:00:00 couchdb >  6399 ?        00:00:05 couchdb > root@default:~# couchdb -d > root@default:~# ps -A | grep couchdb >  4389 ?        00:00:00 couchdb >  4419 ?        00:00:00 couchdb >  6399 ?        00:00:05 couchdb > root@default:~# curl -X GET localhost:5984 > {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.10.0"} > root@default:~# > > So basically it doesn't seem to do anything. The processes are still > running and the couchdb server is still responding to requests. That`s why i prefer to indicate pid explicitly) You can be sure that you operate with instance you exactly need. -- xmpp: pma AT altlinux DOT org