Problem with Elasticsearch 5 service script

[Joachim Mathes]

Hi Mark,

thank you for your answer. We changed the root shell back to default, 
i.e. /bin/csh. But the error message still appears. Do we miss anything 
else?

# echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin

# echo $SHELL
/bin/csh

Thanks in advance
Jo

On 02.05.2018 16:11, Mark Felder wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, at 06:42, Joachim Mathes wrote:
>> Hello Elastic-Team,
>>
>> we have problems with starting the elasticsearch service of package
>> https://www.freshports.org/textproc/elasticsearch5/ (2018Q2).
>> When we try to start elasticsearch the rc.d-script fails with:
>>
>> """
>> Starting elasticsearch. Could not find any executable java binary.
>> Please install java in your PATH or set JAVA_HOME
>> """
>>
>> We fixed this issue by extending the PATH variable in
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/elasticsearch:
>>
>> """
>> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/openjdk8/bin
>> """
>>
>> Can you reproduce this?
>>
> This was narrowed down to the user changing their root shell from csh to something else. It causes issues because /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin are no longer in PATH.
>
> Changing the root shell is strongly discouraged as many assumptions are made about which shell your root user has.
>
>

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