Error message when running start script

[maf23]

I get an error message when I run the start script manually:

 root@es-6246b:~# /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start
 Starting elasticsearch...
 -su: /root/.bash_profile: Permission denied

I traced this down to the -m flag to su in the init script. This causes the elasticsearch process to try to read ~root/.bash_profile, but it does not have read access to ~root. The simplest solution I can think of is to remove the -m flag, but I do not know if that would have any bad consequences.

[karmi]

Hi, there's been a similar discussion at karmi/cookbook-elasticsearch#31 in the past. I've been never able to consistently reproduce this issue. The -m flag is used so the environment is preserved (namely ES_INCLUDE, PIDFILE, etc).

I can now see the issue:

root@precise64:/home/vagrant# /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start
Starting elasticsearch...
-su: /root/.bash_profile: Permission denied

It's really a warning only, as far as I understand? Anyway, running the command as root is pretty rare, actually, apart from some bootstrapping sequence and such?

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Note, there's been a regression in the init script, where the PIDFILE was set incorrectly, it's now fixed as part of karmi/cookbook-elasticsearch@52c2632

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[karmi]

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