Step 7: Configure CouchDB to Start Automatically

Since we dont want to have to manually start CouchDB every time we restart the machine our next task is to create a startup script. In slackware we create this script at "/etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb". Here is my startup code.

Create Startup Script

Create "/etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb" and paste in the following code.

# Start/stop/restart the CouchDB server.
case "$1" in
  'start')
    sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
  ;;
  'stop')
    sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb stop
  ;;
  'restart')
    sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb stop
    sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
  ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
  ;;
esac

In order to run we must set rc.couchdb as executable.

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb

Start CouchDB from the Startup Script

Open the "/etc/rc.d/rc.M" file and paste in the following.

#start couchdb
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb ]; then
        . /etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb start
fi

Stop CouchDB from the Shutdown Script

Open the "/etc/rc.d/rc.6" file and paste in the following.

#stop couchdb
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb ]; then
        . /etc/rc.d/rc.couchdb stop
fi