Selvamohan Neethiraj created RANGER-5559:
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Summary: anger Docker: Startup failures due to insufficient
filesystem permissions on execution of chown command & moving files into
/usr/bin
Key: RANGER-5559
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-5559
Project: Ranger
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: docker
Affects Versions: 2.8.0
Reporter: Selvamohan Neethiraj
Assignee: Selvamohan Neethiraj
Error messages during startup:
{code:java}
2026-04-17 14:13:46,474 [I] Creating
/opt/ranger/admin/ews/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/lib
2026-04-17 14:13:46,525 [I] Setting up init.d
cp: cannot create regular file '/etc/init.d/ranger-admin': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access '/etc/init.d/ranger-admin': No such file or directory
2026-04-17 14:13:46,635 [I] Creating script S88ranger-admin/K90ranger-admin in
/etc/rc2.d directory ....
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/rc2.d/S88ranger-admin': Permission
denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/rc2.d/K90ranger-admin': Permission
denied
2026-04-17 14:13:46,841 [I] Creating script S88ranger-admin/K90ranger-admin in
/etc/rc3.d directory ....
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/rc3.d/S88ranger-admin': Permission
denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/rc3.d/K90ranger-admin': Permission
denied
2026-04-17 14:13:46,890 [I] RANGER ADMIN LOGBACK CONF FILE :
/opt/ranger/admin/ews/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf/logback.xml
2026-04-17 14:13:47,049 [I] Setting up installation files and directory DONE
chown: changing ownership of '/opt/ranger/admin': Operation not permitted{code}
Also, while creation of ranger-services during startup, it assumes the hostname
of the ranger-service is "ranger" whereas it would be different in-case of a
k8s environment. This causes HTTP failure. Also, we need a flag to prevent
auto-creation of these sample ranger-services in the ranger-admin (for
production deployment!)
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