On my Ubuntu Xenial host curator doesn't work at all under elasticsearch user: root@elastic1:~# su - elasticsearch -s /bin/bash elasticsearch@elastic1:~ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8; export LANG=C.UTF-8 elasticsearch@elastic1:~ curator --config /etc/elasticsearch/curator.yml /etc/elasticsearch/curator/a…

Curator returns empty output for elasticsearch user

theuntergeek (Aaron Mildenstein) February 13, 2019, 5:08pm 21

This comes back to some kind of permissions issue then. It's clearly not Curator's problem if it runs for root properly, but not your other user.

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