@Sholes, Joshua: It was installed using Datastax DSC20 package for cassandra 2.0.5.
Checked out * /etc/passwd . *An entry for cassandra user does seem to exist. Looks like this: *cassandra:x:107:113:Cassandra database,,,:/var/lib/cassandra:/bin/false* On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:21 PM, user 01 <user...@gmail.com> wrote: > @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. >> > >
