In the Sys V init scripts, we check for Java. This is not needed, since
the same check happens in elasticsearch-env when starting up. Having
this duplicate check has bitten us in the past, where we made a change
to the logic in elasticsearch-env, but missed updating it here. Since
there is no need for this duplicate check, we remove it from the Sys V
init scripts.
This commit addresses an issue when trying to using Elasticsearch on
systems with Sys V init and the bundled JDK was not being used. Instead,
we were still inadvertently trying to fallback on the path. This commit
removes that fallback as that is against our intentions for 7.x where we
only support the bundled JDK or an explicit JDK via JAVA_HOME.
Currently init scripts fail when `/proc/sys/vm/max_map_count` is not present
with `-bash: [: too many arguments`.
Fix conditional logic to avoid trying to set the `max_map_count` sysctl if not
present.
Backport of: #35933
Relates: #27236
Some systems default to a nofile ulimit of 65535. To reduce the pain of
deploying Elasticsearch to such systems, this commit lowers the required
limit from 65536 to 65535.
So the issue here is that we want to avoid setting vm.max_map_count if
it is already equal to the desired value (the bootstrap check requires
262144). The reason we want to avoid this is because in some use-cases
using sysctl to set this will fail. In this case, we want to enable
users to set this value externally and then allow that to cause using
sysctl to set the value to be skipped so that cases where using sysctl
will fail to no longer fail.
This commit modifies the Sys V init startup scripts to only modify
vm.max_map_count if needed. In this case, needed means that the current
value is less than our default value of 262144 maps.
This commit moves the distribution specific tasks into the respective
archives and packages builds. The collocation of common and distribution
specific tasks make it much easier to reason about what is expected in a
particular distribution.
Jason Tedor
Dimitrios Liappis
Ben Abrams
Ryan Ernst