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Michael Shuler commented on CASSANDRA-8142:
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+1
Tested out the patch manually - non-root user works as normally expected, and
root or sudo:
{noformat}
(cassandra-3.0 *)mshuler@hana:~/git/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
Running Cassandra as root user is not recommended - please start Cassandra
using a different system user.
If you really want to force running Cassandra as root, use -R command line
option.
{noformat}
I added the following env vars to your dtest run and re-ran it to try to get
around timeouts..
{noformat}
export CCM_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=1024M
export CCM_HEAP_NEWSIZE=128M
{noformat}
Since we never run tests as root, this should cause no issues, so I have no
problem with you going ahead and committing this. :)
> prevent the command "cassandra start" from starting a cluster
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-8142
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8142
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Packaging
> Reporter: Steven Lowenthal
> Assignee: Robert Stupp
> Fix For: 3.x
>
>
> Students often type
> "sudo service cassandra start" wrong, and type "sudo cassandra start".
> Running a package installation as root messes up their environments.
> since "start" is not a valid option on the "cassandra" command, we should
> block cassandra from starting.
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