Hello Jörg! Thanks for the reply. I was indeed trying to start ES as superuser. I will try this in a week or so as I am off on leave at the moment.
Jim On Friday, 8 August 2014 08:37:41 UTC+1, Jörg Prante wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:> >> web: www.campaignmonitor.com >> >> >> On 8 August 2014 00:34, Jim Adamson <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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/1f185399-ce40-44cc-90f3-aa47b62a856c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
