Not sure if I follow you. I think build-couchdb is doing the right thing. Without GeoCouch it would just require making a user, a group, and a directory (or not even that if you aren't doing it for production). With GeoCouch, I also have to load GeoCouch in the couchdb script because the initscript uses "su" to run it as the user I created, so I can't pass the ERL_FLAGS in the environment. On Sep 29, 2012 9:43 AM, "Noah Slater" wrote: