Hello again Jörg, I had a look at this and contrary to what I said in my previous message /etc/init.d/elasticsearch *is* configured to run ES as an unprivileged user:
ES_USER=elasticsearch ES_GROUP=elasticsearch That user exists and is a member of that group. Any further suggestions? thanks, Jim On Friday, 8 August 2014 17:38:03 UTC+1, Jim Adamson wrote: > > 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]> >> 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/c48aaf92-0592-4987-8e51-cca65e7c354a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
