Hello, could not find the info either in Jira or on the Wiki so I'm reporting back here.
While deploying CouchDB 0.8.1 on Solaris 10 I noticed the following message: [ Nov 5 16:00:21 Executing start method ("/opt/local/bin/couchdb -b -o /opt/local/var/run/couchdb/couchdb.stdout -e /opt/local/var/run/couchdb/couchdb.stderr -p /opt/local/var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid") ] Apache CouchDB needs write permission on the PID file: /opt/local/var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid [ Nov 5 16:00:21 Method "start" exited with status 1 ] The log reports a missing write permission on run/couchdb but in this case it is writable for the couchdb user. Adding execute permission (chmod 700) solves the issue. Do you think it's a bug ? cheers, Thibaut -- [blog] http://evolvingworker.com - tools for a better day [blog] http://blog.logeek.fr - about writing software