Hello guys, As other users have asked in the past to this list couchdb will not run from a remote interactive shell but rather it will be killed when the ssh session terminates. The command nohup can help with that. Here is what I did (which works OK): run_command () { command="$1" if test -n "$COUCHDB_OPTIONS"; then command="$command $COUCHDB_OPTIONS" fi if test -n "$COUCHDB_USER"; then if nohup su $COUCHDB_USER -c "$command"; then return $SCRIPT_OK else return $SCRIPT_ERROR fi else if $command; then return $SCRIPT_OK else return $SCRIPT_ERROR fi fi } Does it make sense to add nohup to init.d/couchdb script? Or is there a better way to remotely run couchdb? Thanks, - Nestor