@Donald: This did not worked out.. Also as I already have shown above (I think) folder permissions seem to be correct for both *cassandra /var/lib/cassandra* & /*var/log/cassandra *folders
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Donald Smith < donald.sm...@audiencescience.com> wrote: > 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. >
