[Bug 1028657] New: couchdb should also be usable under normal users

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028657

Bug ID: 1028657
           Summary: couchdb should also be usable under normal users
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: couchdb
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]

1. Running under normal user:

[rpmaker@fab fedpkg]$ couchdb
Apache CouchDB 1.3.1 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
Error opening log file /var/log/couchdb/couch.log: permission denied{"init
terminating in
do_boot",{{badmatch,{error,{bad_return,{{couch_app,start,[normal,["/etc/couchdb/default.ini","/etc/couchdb/local.ini"]]},{'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,couch_primary_services,{shutdown,{failed_to_start_child,couch_log,{error,"permission
denied","/var/log/couchdb/couch.log"}}}}}}},[{couch_server_sup,start_server,1,[{file,"couch_server_sup.erl"},{line,98}]},{application_master,start_it_old,4,[{file,"application_master.erl"},{line,269}]}]}}}}}},[{couch,start,0,[{file,"couch.erl"},{line,18}]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}

2. Running under root:

[root@fab fedpkg]# couchdb
Apache CouchDB 1.3.1 (LogLevel=info) is starting.
Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.
[info] [<0.31.0>] Apache CouchDB has started on http://127.0.0.1:5984/

I don't know why this happened, but I think there might have some dirs/files
are operated by incorrect permissions setting.

[Bug 1028657] couchdb should also be usable under normal users

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028657

Peter Lemenkov  changed:

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[Bug 1028657] couchdb should also be usable under normal users

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028657

--- Comment #1 from Peter Lemenkov  ---
Confirmed. I suppose that if couchdb runs under different user it should
respect "XDG Base Directory Specification" instead of using hardcoded
variables. I'll try to fix that in the next build.

[Bug 1028657] couchdb should also be usable under normal users

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Warren Togami  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Warren Togami  ---
I believe /bin/couchdb options lets you override the config, log and pid paths
with command line switches.  Is this insufficient?

/bin/couchdb is from upstream, this isn't a Fedora-specific thing.

[Bug 1028657] couchdb should also be usable under normal users

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