It seems that when couchdb is run with -b it tests for write
permissions on
couchdb.stdout and couchdb.stderr in the directory where couchdb is
started.
I don't see why couchdb should be able to write to my home directory
so I
changed the location of these two file to be the log folder. IMO
this a more
sensible default. I was about to submit a ticket about this, but
before
doing that I just wanted to check here why these files are created
in the
directory from which couchdb is run. Am I missing something obvious?
Yeps!
If you want to run CouchDB in the background, it is recommended that
you do:
/etc/init.d/couchdb start
As you might imagine, this script takes care of switching into the
correct user, and doing log files. If you really wish to start CouchDB
by hand, and in the background, it is expected you take care of this
manually, or specify a proper location for STDOUT and STDERR.
