Glad to have helped! On 17 Jun 2010, at 18:01, Randall Leeds wrote:
> Oh! So now I feel silly. I'm quite sorry for the noise, Noah. You have found > the source of my confusion. Somehow I didn't really know the distinction > between shell variables and environment variables[1]. No wonder I was > frustrated trying to follow you... > > The su man page didn't help with its -m flag. That's what sent me off track. > > > All clear now. Just needed to export it. > > [1] > http://www.fnal.gov/docs/UNIX/unix_at_fermilab/htmldoc/rev1997/uatf-62.html > > On Jun 17, 2010 3:43 AM, "Noah Slater" <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > > On 17 Jun 2010, at 01:57, Randall Leeds wrote: > >> Okay. My issue here stems from the fact that I do... > If you put this: > > export ERL_MAX_PORTS=1024 > > Into this: > > /etc/default/couchdb > > Then running this: > > /etc/init.d/couchdb start > > Would pick up the value in the first example, and pass it to Erlang. > > So as far as I know, the CouchDB daemon is already configurable in the > manner you describe. If the above does not work, then it should, and that is > a bug. If you're not wanting to use the standard init system for CouchDB, > then you are on your own in terms of setting up the correct environment for > whatever system you have designed.
