On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:57, Zdenek Maxa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I need to find out couchdb server pidfile location (or main process pid > directly) via a query. Stuff like /_config, /_log, /_stats is useful and > nowhere seems to be this pid/pidfile information. In other words, is > there anything as simple as for mysql: > SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'pid_file'. I have given up after lots of searching > and I will greatly appreciate your help. Thanks very much in advance. > > Zdenek >
No. The pidfile is maintained by shell scripts that cooperate to ensure CouchDB is restarted if it dies. The actual database process has no idea about pid files at all.
