FAILED TO WRITE PID installing Zookeeper

Question

I am new to Zookeeper and it has being a real issue to install it and run. I am not sure what is wrong in here but I will explain what I\'ve being doing to make it more clear:

Answer 1

The default zookeeper installation (tar extract) comes with the conf file named conf/zoo_sample.cfg while the same extract's bin/zkServer.sh expects the conf file to be called zoo.cfg thereby resulting in a "No such file or dir" and the "failed to write pid" error. So before running zkServer.sh to start or stop zookeeper instance, either:

• rename the zoo_sample.cfg in the conf dir to zoo.cfg, or
• give the name (and path) to the conf file (as suggested by Ilya Lapitan), or, of course
• edit zkServer.sh ;-)