why elasticsearch won't run on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I\'m trying to determine if the elasticsearch instance is running, but it doesn\'t appear to be:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo service elasticsearch status
 * elasti         


        

Answer 1

While the accepted answer command worked for me using Elasticsearch 1.7.3, with some changes in Elasticsearch >2.0 running the accepted answer command would produce

es.default.config is no longer supported. elasticsearch.yml 
must be placed in the config directory and cannot be renamed

Github Issue

The command as specified in the above Github issue would now be:

sudo -u elasticsearch /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -d -p /var/run/elasticsearch.pid --path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch --default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch --default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch --default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch --default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch