Elasticsearch, Permission Denied during configuration

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi People!

Im new to both Linux & ELK stack. So this might be a simple matter.

During configuration of Elasticssearch-2.2.0 I type the command "./bin/elasticsearch" under an account i created (ELKuser) but i get back this:

log4j: ERROR setFile (null,true) call failed.
/home/elasticsearch-2.2.0/logs/elasticsearch.log (Permission denied)

Has anyone seen this before? If so what do you go about fixing this?

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That's an odd path to extract ES to.
What user are you trying to run this as and does it have the correct permissions?