On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 05:31, Mike Coolin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Bob, > > After doing this I got 1.2 to launch, of course it closed when my terminal > did. > > Change the ownership of the CouchDB directories by running: > > chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/etc/couchdb > chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb > chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb > chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb > > Change the permission of the CouchDB directories by running: > > chmod 0770 /usr/local/etc/couchdb > chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb > chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/log/couchdb > chmod 0770 /usr/local/var/run/couchdb > I don't understand what i need to do to get the latest couchdb to replace > the 1.0.1 version that starts automatically. The instructions get very > vague...
Remove the old couchdb (or if you have packages that depend on it, just move /etc/init.d/couchdb to the side, like couchdb.old) and symlink /etc/init.d/couchdb to /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb. That should do it.
