How to Elasticsearch 5.5 as service RH Linux

[Beuhlet_Reseau (Newbie)]

Hello !

After some tests on preproduction with rpm, i begin to configure production environment.

Problem : Elasticsearch doesn't work in root user + It's not a service (source : tar.gz)

Currently context : Elasticsearch 5.5 with source .tar.gz

I want create a service for elasticsearch. So i have editer under " /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/elasticsearch.service" :

[Unit]
Description=Elasticsearch
Documentation=http://www.elastic.co
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch
WorkingDirectory=/opt/elasticsearch
User=elasticsearch
Group=elasticsearch
ExecStartPre=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec
ExecStart=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch \
                                        -p /var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid \
                                        --quiet \
                                        -Edefault.path.logs=/opt/elasticsearch/logs \
                                        -Edefault.path.data=/elasticsearch-data \
                                        -Edefault.path.conf=/opt/elasticsearch/config

StandardError=inherit
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
TimeoutStopSec=0
KillSignal=SIGTERM
SendSIGKILL=no
SuccessExitStatus=143

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

So when i start it, when i show service's status i see :

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-07-26 11:17:34 CEST; 17min ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 5177 ExecStart=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p /var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs=/opt/elasticsearch/logs -Edefault.path.data=/elasticsearch-data -Edefault.path.conf=/opt/elasticsearch/config (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 5174 ExecStartPre=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 5177 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Elasticsearch will never start as root user. You need to use another one.

[josephjohney]

You can also install Elasticsearch as using rpm which is available from the products section.

Please use rpm install commands so that Elasticsearch will be installed as a service. Only thing you have to do additional is to configure the systemctl to start the Elasticseach during boot.

[Beuhlet_Reseau (Newbie)]

I have configure all binary ELK to service linux.

It's not important but, run soft with systemctl status/start/stop name_soft is More intuitive