Install elasticsearch error in centos

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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hi there, last time i install elasticsearch in windows, everything work perfectly fine now
after some development on my application modules, now i decided to move to my server.

which in running on centos.

i have problems when installing it.

after downloading elasticsearch package.

i run this command :

bin/elasticsearch

and then i got this error msg :

> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: don't run elasticsearch as root.
>         at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:93)
>         at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:144)
>         at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:270)
>         at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35

this my environment specification :

centos-release-6-6.el6.centos.12.2.x86_64

java version "1.7.0_101"

elastic version 2.3.4

i dont know what to do to fix this one.

please help me.

thanks in advance.

2

don't run elasticsearch as root

Don't run Elasticsearch as the root user. Run it as some other user, e.g. yourself.

3

how to make elasticsearch don't run as root ?