On top of what Adam said, the scripts under assembly/init.d will not only install init.d scripts and set rc levels, they will also create an accumulo, accumulo_trace, and accumulo_monitor user and the processes will run under those users.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Terry P. <texpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just finished setting up an 8-node cluster using Cloudera CDH3u5 and > Accumulo 1.4.2. The Cloudera rpm installations created the hdfs Linux user > and hadoop group (and others). I initially created an accumulo Linux user > and set it as the owner of the Accumulo software. > > However, after HDFS was up and running, when I attempted to start Accumulo > as the accumulo Linux user, I of course got HDFS permission denied when it > tried to write to HDFS. Being a newbie, I didn't bother figuring out how > to grant HDFS permissions to the accumulo account, I just started Accumulo > as the hdfs user so I could get things rolling. > > As what user does one normally start Accumulo? hdfs? Linux root? The > Accumulo User Manual never recommends anything about who the Accumulo > binaries should be owned by or what account it should be run under (e.g. > root, or an accumulo Linux account). > > Thanks in advance, > Terry >
