Merge pull request #13579 from nik9000/run_plugin_as_elasticsearch_in_tar

Run bin/plugin as elasticsearch in tar distro

docs/plugins/plugin-script.asciidoc

@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ Run the following command to get usage instructions:
 sudo bin/plugin -h
 -----------------------------------
 
+[IMPORTANT]
+.Running as root
+=====================
+If Elasticsearch was installed using the deb or rpm package then run
+`bin/plugin` as `root` so it can write to the appropriate files on disk.
+Otherwise run `bin/plugin` as the user that owns all of the Elasticsearch
+files.
+=====================
+
 [[installation]]
 === Installing Plugins
 
@@ -222,4 +231,3 @@ plugin.mandatory: mapper-attachments,lang-groovy
 --------------------------------------------------
 
 For safety reasons, a node will not start if it is missing a mandatory plugin.
-

qa/vagrant/src/test/resources/packaging/scripts/packaging_test_utils.bash

@@ -316,15 +316,11 @@ wait_for_elasticsearch_status() {
     echo "Making sure elasticsearch is up..."
     wget -O - --retry-connrefused --waitretry=1 --timeout=60 --tries 60 http://localhost:9200 || {
           echo "Looks like elasticsearch never started. Here is its log:"
-          if [ -r "/tmp/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid" ]; then
+          if [ -e "$ESLOG/elasticsearch.log" ]; then
-              cat /tmp/elasticsearch/logs/elasticsearch.log
+              cat "$ESLOG/elasticsearch.log"
           else
-              if [ -e '/var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log' ]; then
+              echo "The elasticsearch log doesn't exist. Maybe /vag/log/messages has something:"
-                  cat /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log
+              tail -n20 /var/log/messages
-              else
-                  echo "The elasticsearch log doesn't exist. Maybe /vag/log/messages has something:"
-                  tail -n20 /var/log/messages
-              fi
           fi
           false
     }
@@ -398,6 +394,7 @@ move_config() {
     mv "$oldConfig"/* "$ESCONFIG"
     chown -R elasticsearch:elasticsearch "$ESCONFIG"
     assert_file_exist "$ESCONFIG/elasticsearch.yml"
+    assert_file_exist "$ESCONFIG/logging.yml"
 }
 
 # Copies a script into the Elasticsearch install.

qa/vagrant/src/test/resources/packaging/scripts/plugin_test_cases.bash

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ if [[ "$BATS_TEST_FILENAME" =~ 25_tar_plugins.bats$ ]]; then
     }
     export ESHOME=/tmp/elasticsearch
     export_elasticsearch_paths
+    export ESPLUGIN_COMMAND_USER=elasticsearch
 else
     load os_package
     if is_rpm; then
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ else
         GROUP='DEB PLUGINS'
     fi
     export_elasticsearch_paths
+    export ESPLUGIN_COMMAND_USER=root
     install() {
         install_package
         verify_package_installation

qa/vagrant/src/test/resources/packaging/scripts/plugins.bash

@@ -32,10 +32,18 @@ install_plugin() {
 
     assert_file_exist "$path"
 
-    "$ESHOME/bin/plugin" install "file://$path"
+    sudo -E -u $ESPLUGIN_COMMAND_USER "$ESHOME/bin/plugin" install "file://$path"
 
     assert_file_exist "$ESPLUGINS/$name"
     assert_file_exist "$ESPLUGINS/$name/plugin-descriptor.properties"
+
+    # At some point installing or removing plugins caused elasticsearch's logs
+    # to be owned by root. This is bad so we want to make sure it doesn't
+    # happen.
+    if [ -e "$ESLOG" ] && [ $(stat "$ESLOG" --format "%U") == "root" ]; then
+        echo "$ESLOG is now owned by root! That'll break logging when elasticsearch tries to start."
+        false
+    fi
 }
 
 install_jvm_plugin() {
@@ -50,9 +58,17 @@ remove_plugin() {
     local name=$1
 
     echo "Removing $name...."
-    "$ESHOME/bin/plugin" remove $name
+    sudo -E -u $ESPLUGIN_COMMAND_USER "$ESHOME/bin/plugin" remove $name
 
     assert_file_not_exist "$ESPLUGINS/$name"
+
+    # At some point installing or removing plugins caused elasticsearch's logs
+    # to be owned by root. This is bad so we want to make sure it doesn't
+    # happen.
+    if [ -e "$ESLOG" ] && [ $(stat "$ESLOG" --format "%U") == "root" ]; then
+        echo "$ESLOG is now owned by root! That'll break logging when elasticsearch tries to start."
+        false
+    fi
 }
 
 # Install the jvm-example plugin which fully excercises the special case file

qa/vagrant/src/test/resources/packaging/scripts/tar.bash

@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ export_elasticsearch_paths() {
     export ESSCRIPTS="$ESCONFIG/scripts"
     export ESDATA="$ESHOME/data"
     export ESLOG="$ESHOME/logs"
-
 }
 
 # Checks that all directories & files are correctly installed