I do not use deb or rpm, but I remember this is an issue when running ES under superuser privilege.
ES should never (never) run as root, instead a user with minimal privilege should be created. Jörg On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Mark Walkom <[email protected]> wrote: > I just tested this and didn't run into the same problem. > > Have you changed something locally around your environment variables, or > in the service defaults? > > > > Regards, > Mark Walkom > > Infrastructure Engineer > Campaign Monitor > email: [email protected] > web: www.campaignmonitor.com > > > On 8 August 2014 00:34, Jim Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am having a problem running elasticsearch-0.90.11.deb on Ubuntu 12.04.4 >> LTS (VMWare VM, Intel Xeon @ 2.3Ghz, 2GB RAM). The problem occurs after I >> run `/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start`. Although ES appears to start >> successfully, grepping for the process shows it is not running. >> >> Issuing the following: >> >> cd /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin >> ./elasticsearch -f >> >> ...gives: >> >> log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (node). >> log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. >> log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for >> more info. >> >> With help from a developer colleague I have managed to get it to run by >> adding a suitable log4j.properties file to /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin, >> cd-ing to that directory and running `./elasticsearch -f >> -Dlog4j.configuration=./log4j.properties`. However, I'm not sure why this >> would have been required in the first place and feel there must be >> something misconfigured that's resulting in the init.d script failing to >> start ES. >> >> I have tried adding the following to /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml >> but it doesn't make a difference: >> >> path.conf: /etc/elasticsearch >> path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch >> path.work: /tmp/elasticsearch >> path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch >> >> ES is one of the dependencies for some software we are running called >> atom, which only support ES < v1. The install instructions are available at >> https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/docs/2.0/admin-manual/installation/linux/#installation-linux >> . >> >> The version of Java is Oracle’s JVM distributed by Web Upd8: >> >> java -version >> java version "1.8.0_11" >> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_11-b12) >> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.11-b03, mixed mode) >> >> Thanks for any help you can provide. >> >> Jim >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7a29f981-232b-43c9-a60d-7306d1bfdf45%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/7a29f981-232b-43c9-a60d-7306d1bfdf45%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624YoNaXtdwCJXvxMcHRSWunaq6V7DtFks3Y%2BoYfQWEpLBQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624YoNaXtdwCJXvxMcHRSWunaq6V7DtFks3Y%2BoYfQWEpLBQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoHRvGQ%3DyxTMCROCkcgxk5gEAK2UGcJtnqANPxjMzNyx-A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
