title: CouchDB on Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS: Stop and restart
body: <p>I am in the process of evaluating CouchDB for a specific requirement and I am new to CouchDB.</p>
  
  <p>I have installed Couch DB using the package installation and it has started at the time of installation and listening to port 5984.</p>
  
  <p>Now i want to stop and restart. I have tried various options but none of them worked.</p>
  
  <p>Option 1</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>sudo service couchdb stop (this does not stop at all)</p>
    
    <p>sudo netstat -lpn shows that a process listening to 5984</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Option 2</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>sudo -i -u couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb start</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>This is prompting for the password (ofcourse) which i do not know.</strong></p>
  
  <p>I understand that a new user called couchdb is created at the time of installation. 
  <strong>What is the default password of this user?</strong></p>