All,
I have installed elasticsearch as mentioned in guide. However, when I try to run ./bin/elasticsearch it errors as below: Please advise how to resolve this issue.
[WARN ][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:127) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:67) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:106) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:194) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:350) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]
... 6 more
Thanks,
Vishnu