hi On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > Looks fine. It's a little odd to be changing the install location to > /opt/solr instead of /opt ... but if that's what you really want, it > won't cause any issues.
Just testing that it does what I want, where I want. I always *1st* install into a dedicated subdir ... have had one too many apps fail to create their own subdir, and 'pollute'! > > chown -R solr:solr /opt/solr > > Why are you doing this step? Because it was complaining about permissions. 1st assumption was ownership ... > Those files are *MEANT* to be owned by > root. The solr user has no need to write to files in that location. > (Changing permissions in this way is unlikely to hurt anything, but > isn't at all necessary) Noted. > distribution I'm on OpenSuse. So still have to do this https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/305/files 1st. > Try the following as a troubleshooting step. Either log in as "solr" or ... I managed to 'fix' the problem. rm -f /etc/init.d/solr and replace it with a systemd unit file, /etc/systemd/system/solr.service That seems to do the trick: ps aux | grep solr solr 35445 181 1.6 4047996 267116 ? Sl 04:57 0:11 java -server -Xms512m -Xmx51 ... and all's good. WHY that works, that's still an open question for me ...
