Thanks Adam and Jan. We were able to have a few instances running with the workaround.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Kocoloski [mailto:kocol...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 12:47 PM To: user@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: CouchDB 2.0 Command Line Options Thanks Jan, that was a bit cleaner than I realized. It’s a decent workaround. Important to note that every file you want to be consulted needs to be listed there — the couch_ini flag will override the default search space entirely. Adam > On Oct 6, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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 > -- > >> On 06 Oct 2016, at 17:41, maggie.ji...@tdameritrade.com 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:kocol...@apache.org] >> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 11:10 AM >> To: user@couchdb.apache.org >> 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, maggie.ji...@tdameritrade.com 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 >> > > -- > Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__neighbourhood.ie_couchdb-2Dsupport_&d=DQIFaQ&c=nulvIAQnC0yOOjC0e0NVa8TOcyq9jNhjZ156R-JJU10&r=NRwPGDrZo7L6ztGDn5UDKmqnTC5BQkZuuScVw4Hm9u4&m=UrPI_7HMw1047UYbHeTMFRtpuzryeI9yzBKSv0ieS8E&s=6d4Kf2O6B8PgNTTpkGIW73WmB8P-S3Ysw6TbUfVuhZg&e= > >
