If you setup solr using install_service which comes with solr, it sets up solr running as "solr" user. Solr is not recommended to run as root user due to security concerns. You either launch solr as service solr start or /etc/init.d/solr start
Answer to 1) Yes, you can configure solr service to start at boot using linux commands 2) The data/index directory should be owned/writable for Solr user in order for solr process to be able to write etc. HTH. On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Iridian Group <ksav...@iridiangroup.com> wrote: > OK thanks, got it. > So the user the server runs under is ‘Solr’. > However when I stop the server and switch to the Solr user and try to > start, I get an error stating that I can’t write to the log files due to > permissions. > All of this Solr installs permissions are root:root. > > 1) If I can’t manually start the server as user Solr, shouldn’t the > service also not start on boot? > 2) Are the permissions of the Solr instance supposed to be something other > than root:root? > > Apologies for all the 101 questions. > > > > Thanks > > Keith > > > > > On Jul 14, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Susheel Kumar <susheel2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > The first column is the UID/user column as output of ps -ef on linux > > machines... > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Iridian Group <ksav...@iridiangroup.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> How do I determine which user the Solr server starts up with and is > >> running under? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Keith Savoie > >> > >> > >
