Sonarqube 7.9.1 refuses to start

SonarQube
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:tada:

Doesn’t matter who owns files - process is executed by the user that launches/starts this process.

And so it is expected to see can not run elasticsearch as root - here is the same on my machine:

# ls -lAh sonarqube-7.9.1
total 8.0K
-rw-r--r--  1 evgeny.mandrikov wheel 7.5K Jul 10 12:21 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x  6 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  192 Jul 10 12:21 bin
drwxr-xr-x  4 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  128 Jul 10 12:21 conf
drwxr-xr-x  3 evgeny.mandrikov wheel   96 Jul 10 12:21 data
drwxr-xr-x 10 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  320 Jul 10 12:21 elasticsearch
drwxr-xr-x  4 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  128 Jul 10 12:21 extensions
drwxr-xr-x  8 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  256 Jul 10 12:32 lib
drwxr-xr-x  3 evgeny.mandrikov wheel   96 Jul 10 12:21 logs
drwxr-xr-x  3 evgeny.mandrikov wheel   96 Jul 10 12:21 temp
drwxr-xr-x 23 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  736 Jul 10 12:33 web

# ls -lah sonarqube-7.9.1/bin/linux-x86-64/
total 132K
drwxr-xr-x 5 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  160 Jul 10 12:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  192 Jul 10 12:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 evgeny.mandrikov wheel   96 Jul 10 12:21 lib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 evgeny.mandrikov wheel  17K Jul 10 12:21 sonar.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 evgeny.mandrikov wheel 109K Jul 10 12:21 wrapper

# sudo su root

# whoami
root

# sonarqube-7.9.1/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start

# cat sonarqube-7.9.1/logs/es.log
2019.08.08 12:37:17 ERROR es[][o.e.b.Bootstrap] Exception
java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root

So now I’m pretty sure that
if you switch to sonar user using command su sonar
then execution of sonarqube-7.9.1/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start will not show message can not run elasticsearch as root

sonarqube-7.9.1/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh can do su sonar for you before starting java, but for this you must change in it

#RUN_AS_USER=

on

RUN_AS_USER=sonar
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