try
export ERL_FLAGS=“-couch_ini /path/to/default.ini /path/to/local_one.ini”
./bin/couchdb

Analogous with local_two.ini etc.

Best
Jan
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> On 06 Oct 2016, at 17:41, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Thanks for replying! I need to point it to another location. We plan to have 
> a few instances of CouchDB for different purposes on our dev servers and 
> would like to use the same binaries to start it up (but pointing to different 
> local.ini files on start up). Without the -a option, I'd have to build 
> CouchDB 2.0 3 times (for example) in order to be able to start up 3 instances 
> of it on a dev server.
> 
> Maggie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Kocoloski [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 11:10 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CouchDB 2.0 Command Line Options
> 
> Hi Maggie,
> 
> You’re right, the “-a” switch is ignored in 2.0. That’s a miss on our part. I 
> filed 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_COUCHDB-2D3183&d=DQIFaQ&c=nulvIAQnC0yOOjC0e0NVa8TOcyq9jNhjZ156R-JJU10&r=NRwPGDrZo7L6ztGDn5UDKmqnTC5BQkZuuScVw4Hm9u4&m=CvGFCOSao1pTuD2kwqk7Wzhvz_0qdcdqfL_QjL_7E3o&s=LfHg4gH3qRk1Ve2f26b8_Pnj3TqhGxUo0O_duEaLikg&e=
>  . You can still drop files in the local.d directory and they should take 
> precedence over any files in default.* as well as local.ini.
> 
> There are other undocumented ways to customize the list of configuration 
> files that are consulted using flags in the vm.args file (and probably using 
> some environment variables as well),, but I wouldn’t really recommend going 
> there. Does the local.d option work for you or do you need to point to 
> another location?
> 
> Adam
> 
>> On Oct 5, 2016, at 10:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm looking to point to a different local.ini than the one located in the 
>> CouchDB 2.0 etc folder. Is there a way to specify this when starting up 
>> CouchDB or is there another way?  Looking at the docs, it seems like we 
>> should still be using the "-a" option but after looking at the startup 
>> scripts in the bin folder there is no code there to accept the "-a" switch 
>> anymore.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Maggie
> 

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