Thanks a lot Shyamal. That was the solution. It works now :) regards Ramesh
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Shyamal Prasad <shya...@member.fsf.org>wrote: > > >>>>> "Ramesh" =3D=3D Ramesh S <investt...@gmail.com> writes: > > Ramesh> Hello all, We installed Cassandra on our development > Ramesh> server , which is a fresh Ubuntu server running only > Ramesh> Cassandra. We followed all the instructions on this > Ramesh> link=C2=A0and when we want to start the server as a service by > Ramesh> issuing either of the command. > > Ramesh> service cassandra start > Ramesh> /etc/init.d/cassandra start > > Ramesh> it waits for a few seconds, then returns the prompt. > Ramesh> But the service never starts. When we try to start with > Ramesh> cassandra -f , it works fine. > > If you installed from the Debian package you probably have a known > permission problem, and you should see it recorded in > /var/log/cassandra/output.log when starting from the init script. See > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3198 > > The fix is to: > chown -R cassandra: /var/lib/cassandra > chown -R cassandra: /var/log/cassandra > > Cheers! > Shyamal > >