couchdb doesn't start

I installed couchDB under Sabayon with help of Rigo and followed this instruction ( http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/source.html ): xyz@wp01 ~ $ su Password: wp01 xyz # chown -R couchdb:couchdb /etc/couchdb wp01 xyz # chown -R couchdb:couchdb /var/lib/couchdb wp01 xyz # chown -R couchdb:couchdb /var/log/couchdb wp01 xyz # chown -R couchdb:couchdb /var/run/couchdb chown: cannot access ‘/var/run/couchdb’: No such file or directory wp01 xyz # chmod -R 0770 /etc/couchdb wp01 xyz # chmod -R 0770 /var/lib/couchdb wp01 xyz # chmod -R 0770 /var/log/couchdb wp01 xyz # chmod -R 0770 /var/run/couchdb chmod: cannot access ‘/var/run/couchdb’: No such file or directory $ sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b Password: Sorry, user xyz is not allowed to execute '/sbin/nologin -c couchdb -b' as couchdb on wp01. What did I do wrong?