Sorry if this is a duplicate but I think I sent this before I was added to the list... See following email for change request to Wiki. Best regards, Jake Hertenstein ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jake Hertenstein Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM Subject: Wiki correction To: user@couchdb.apache.org http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX Regarding following quote, I believe there should be a "sudo" before "find" as my user did not have correct permission to find the folders: Using a terminal, set permissions as follows: RELAX=/usr/local sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb $RELAX/etc/couchdb $RELAX/var/lib/couchdb $RELAX/var/run/couchdb $RELAX/var/log/couchdb sudo chmod -R 770 $RELAX/etc/couchdb $RELAX/var/lib/couchdb $RELAX/var/run/couchdb $RELAX/var/log/couchdb find -X $RELAX/etc/couchdb $RELAX/var/lib/couchdb $RELAX/var/run/couchdb $RELAX/var/log/couchdb -type f | sudo xargs chmod 660 sudo cp $RELAX/Cellar/couchdb/1.2.0/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.couchdb.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/ Best regards, Jake Hertenstein