Oh! So now I feel silly. I'm quite sorry for the noise, Noah. You have found the source of my confusion. Somehow I didn't really know the distinction between shell variables and environment variables[1]. No wonder I was frustrated trying to follow you...
The su man page didn't help with its -m flag. That's what sent me off track. All clear now. Just needed to export it. [1] http://www.fnal.gov/docs/UNIX/unix_at_fermilab/htmldoc/rev1997/uatf-62.html On Jun 17, 2010 3:43 AM, "Noah Slater" <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: On 17 Jun 2010, at 01:57, Randall Leeds wrote: > Okay. My issue here stems from the fact that I do... If you put this: export ERL_MAX_PORTS=1024 Into this: /etc/default/couchdb Then running this: /etc/init.d/couchdb start Would pick up the value in the first example, and pass it to Erlang. So as far as I know, the CouchDB daemon is already configurable in the manner you describe. If the above does not work, then it should, and that is a bug. If you're not wanting to use the standard init system for CouchDB, then you are on your own in terms of setting up the correct environment for whatever system you have designed.
