On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23 May 2011, at 17:14, Noah Slater wrote: > >> Let's figure out why "su" is failing for you first. > > Did you try the command manually by the way? > > What happens when you try to execute that su invocation yourself? > > I'm guessing it's a problem with your root or couchdb user not having a valid > home directory.
Yes, I did. I'm just booting my vm. Will have it for you shortly. Btw, the couchdb's home is its db dir. And yes, all permissions are correct. It wouldn't work otherwise when I used sudo -u.
