As I mentioned I had given ownership to cassandra user for the cassandra.pid containing folder, var/lib/cassandra & /var/log/cassandra. All of them are owned by cassandra as I verified.
However after suggestion by someone, I tried removing the folders var/lib/cassandra & /var/log/cassandra & restarted cassandra & it seems to work fine now.. after this I can start the cassandra as a service using * sudo service cassandra start* & can also see status using *sudo service cassandra startus* However is this a practical approach? should I just delete the entire folders as such & let cassandra create new folders ? Wouldn't that reduce some information from cassandra? (like the opscenter keyspaces which were there by default but wont be created by cassandra itself ? or anything else I dont know!). However this means that folder permissions is not somehow correct, isn;t it ? Shouldn't dsc installer be taking care of configuring this properly ? Or is it my responsibility ? On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org>wrote: > That all makes sense, then. I, personally, would not give the c* user a > valid shell, unless it was just for a little testing - then change it back > to /bin/false as intended. > > Since the initial problem was that the service commaned had trouble with > the PID file, and OP has tinkered with starting as root, it's possible root > owns the pid file or directory? > > (or that 'service cassandra status' doesn't work as expected, and it's > actually running fine?) > > Honestly, there's too many unknowns for me to accurately be able to help > without poking around a shell on the node - I'm just guessing. > > -- > Michael > > > On 03/10/2014 12:50 PM, Sholes, Joshua wrote: > >> Depending on how it was installed, try making sure that the cassandra >> user has an actual login shell defined in /etc/passwd and not something >> like /sbin/nologin or /bin/false. >> >> >> From: user 01 <user...@gmail.com <mailto:user...@gmail.com>> >> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" >> <user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> >> >> Date: Monday, March 10, 2014 at 1:22 PM >> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" >> <user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto: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. >> > >
