You may need to do "chown -R cassandra /var/lib/cassandra /var/log/cassandra" .
Don From: user 01 [mailto:user...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 10:23 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Cassandra DSC 2.0.5 not starting - "* could not access pidfile for Cassandra" $ sudo su - cassandra I don't know why but this isn't actually working. It does not switch me to cassandra user[btw .. should this actually switch me to cassandra user?? ]. This user switching on my servers does not work for users like tomcat7 user, cassandra user but works for users that were manually created by user. Actually I tested this on two of my test servers but same results on both.
