It is rarely used and was not consistently handled by different distributions anyway.
This commit also adds a test for specifying CONF_DIR when installing plugins and
starting elasticsearch.
relates to #12712 and #12954closes#5329closes#13715
Enabling GC logging works now by setting the environment variable ES_GC_LOG_FILE
to the full path to the GC log file. Missing directories will be created as needed.
The ES_USE_GC_LOGGING environment variable is no longer used.
Closes#8471Closes#8479
If you use the java-package tool to create java packages, those
paths also should be added to the debian init script.
Also updated the docs, that it is ok to install java8.
Closes#7383
The reason to not start packages on installation is to allow to configure
them before starting up (setting heap, cluster.name etc)
Also the documentation was updated in order to show, which statements need
to be executed.
In addition, these statements are also printed out when the package is
installed, depending on whether chkconfig, system or update-rc.d is used.
Closes#3722
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
Dongjoon Hyun
Kevin Kirsche
Britta Weber
Clinton Gormley
Jamie White
Tanguy Leroux
Andreas Kohn
Alexander Reelsen
Gaurav Arora
Uwe Dauernheim
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