Instead of using the '-f' parameter to start elasticsearch in the
foreground, this is now the default modus.
In order to start elasticsearch in the background, the '-d' parameter
can be used.
Closes#4392
In order to be sure that memory mapped lucene directories are working
one can configure the kernel about how many memory mapped areas
a process may have. This setting ensure for the debian and redhat initscripts
as well as the systemd startup, that this setting is set high enough.
Closes#4397
Both package types, RPM and deb now contain an option to not restart on upgrade.
This option can be configure in /etc/default/elasticsearch for dpkg based systems
and /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch for rpm based systems.
By default the setting is as before, where a restart is executed on upgrade.
Closes#3685
In case systemd is used, ulimit is not called (as it would be in the initscript)
and has to be configured in the systemd configuration.
For more information about the parameters LimitNOFILE and LimitMEMLOCK
see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
This decision helps people who want to rollout the oracle java without having an openjdk java installed.
* Removed any hard dependency on Java in the debian package
* The debian init script does not check for an existing JAVA_HOME anymore
* Debian and RedHat initscripts now exit if they do not find a java binary (instead of starting elasticsearch in the background and swallowing the error as there is no way to log it in that case)
* Changed the debian init script to rely on the pid file instead of the argument name of process
* Added a useful error message in case no java binary is available (in elasticsearch shell script)
Closes#3304Closes#3311
In order to ensure that configuration files do not get overwritten when
upgrading an RPM, it is not sufficient to mark them as configuration. You
have to use the 'noreplace' parameter to make sure, they are never
overwritten. Added this parameter for the /etc/elasticsearch directory
as well as the /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch file.
In addition, the post remove script now only deletes the user in case of
a package removal (and does nothing on package upgrade).
Closes#3123
* RPM: Use the ES_USER variable to set the user (same name as in the debian package
now), while retaining backwards compatibility to existing /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch
* RPM: Bugfix: Remove the user when uninstalling the package
* RPM: Set an existing homedir when adding the user (allows one to run cronjobs as this user)
* DEB & RPM: Unify Required-Start/Required-Stop fields in initscripts
Older OpenSUSE distributions do not ship with systemd and therefore are
using chkconfig, but do not have their scripts placed at /etc/init.d/
This patch is more defensive and adds additional checks in the postinstall
script to prevent aborted post install scripts, which makes the RPM
uninstallable.
Note: This has been disabled by default and is therefore not included in a
standard build. The main reason for this is, that you need to have a RPM
binary and the rpm development packages installed, which is not the case
on many systems.
The package contains an init.d-script as well as systemd configurations.
You can build your own RPM package simply by running 'maven rpm:rpm'
Alexander Reelsen
skymeyer