Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 038659D6A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28932 invoked by uid 500); 8 Mar 2012 16:46:03 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 28786 invoked by uid 500); 8 Mar 2012 16:46:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 28760 invoked by uid 99); 8 Mar 2012 16:46:02 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:46:02 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of ldahlin08@simons-rock.edu designates 208.81.88.14 as permitted sender) Received: from [208.81.88.14] (HELO hedwig.simons-rock.edu) (208.81.88.14) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:45:54 +0000 Received: from [10.5.18.228] (unknown [10.5.18.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hedwig.simons-rock.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C7382939 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:45:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <8AEBB906-81DF-499D-823A-EA96D54694A5@simons-rock.edu> From: Lauren Dahlin To: user@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: root Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:45:33 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Hi All, I've been using CouchDB with great success on Ubuntu, but unfortunately due to other software needs, I am switching to RHEL6. Because I'm on an ec2 instance, I am trying to run Couchdb from the root user. I used iriscouch/build-couchdb from github, seemingly without errors. I changed COUCHDB_USER to root in /etc/default/ couchdb, but I'm hanging at startup after I get the "time to relax" message. I'm thinking this is a permissions issue, but don't know how to troubleshoot. Thanks, Lauren