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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:50:09 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cassandra DSC 2.0.5 not starting - "* could not access pidfile
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That all makes sense, then. I, personally, would not give the c* user a 
valid shell, unless it was just for a little testing - then change it 
back to /bin/false as intended.

Since the initial problem was that the service commaned had trouble with 
the PID file, and OP has tinkered with starting as root, it's possible 
root owns the pid file or directory?

(or that 'service cassandra status' doesn't work as expected, and it's 
actually running fine?)

Honestly, there's too many unknowns for me to accurately be able to help 
without poking around a shell on the node - I'm just guessing.

-- 
Michael

On 03/10/2014 12:50 PM, Sholes, Joshua wrote:
> Depending on how it was installed, try making sure that the cassandra
> user has an actual login shell defined in /etc/passwd and not something
> like /sbin/nologin or /bin/false.
>
>
> From: user 01 <userw93@gmail.com <mailto:userw93@gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>"
> <user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>>
> Date: Monday, March 10, 2014 at 1:22 PM
> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>"
> <user@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>>
> Subject: Re: Cassandra DSC 2.0.5 not starting - "* could not access
> pidfile for Cassandra"
>
>     $*sudo su - cassandra*
>
> *
> *
> I don't know why but this isn't actually working. It does not switch me
> to *cassandra* user[btw .. should this actually switch me to cassandra
> user?? ]. This user switching on my servers does not work for users like
> *tomcat7* user, *cassandra* user but works for users that were manually
> created by user. Actually I tested this on two of my test servers but
> same results on both.