FreeBSD textproc/elasticsearch6 does not honour /etc/profile

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, at 05:43, Leander Schäfer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it looks like textproc/elasticsearch6 does not honour /etc/profile?
> Please have a look for detailed description and reproduction of the
> issue:
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/textproc-elasticsearch6-does-not-honour-etc-profile.65338/
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Leander S.

I'm pretty sure this is not supposed to work. /etc/profile is used by sh(1) and would only be read during a login shell. The FreeBSD rc subsystem uses "su -m" when running processes as a specific user, not "su -l". The "su -l" would fail because ElasticSearch's user has a default shell of /sbin/nologin. As far as I can tell this is normal behavior.

If you need to change env for Elastic you can use the elasticsearch_env="" in /etc/rc.conf. Any further questions about overcoming issues in your environment are welcome. We also have a list for elastic now called "freebsd-elastic at FreeBSD.org". 


Hope that helps,


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  Mark Felder
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