I’m trying to run a Sonatype Nexus under the custom nexus user, because they recommend not running it not under the root user. I’m on an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 machine and it ran previously successfully under the root user. I’ve added the nexus user and changed directory rights: useradd --home-dir /op…

I was able to fix it :tada: The problem was that the root folder containing the folders which the nexus program needed to work also need to have the nexus user as owner. This is my working install script: # install sonatype nexus mkdir -pv /opt/efsfilesystem/sonatype-work ln -sv /opt/efsfilesystem/…

It could be this: https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Run+as+a+Service#RunasaService-PIDFile

I can confirm that I don’t have a pid file with the nexus user, but the root user does. I’ve tried chown -R nexus:nexus /tmp but no PIDFile was written with the nexus user. I’ve tried setting the absolute path in /opt/nexus/bin/nexus.vmoptions with: -Dinstall4j.pidDir=/opt/nexus but with the sa…

Try running “systemctl status nexus” after “systemctl start nexus”, to see what it shows.

it runs for 3 seconds, then shuts down systemd[1]: Starting nexus service... nexus[7243]: Starting nexus systemd[1]: Started nexus service. systemd[1]: nexus.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a nexus[7447]: Shutting down nexus nexus[7447]: nexus is not running. systemd[1]: Uni…

@mles do you get any different clues by running nexus from the command line instead of as a service? /opt/nexus/bin/nexus start

Nope, that’ exactly what systemd is also doing. $ su nexus bash-4.2$ /opt/nexus/bin/nexus start Starting nexus bash-4.2$ /opt/nexus/bin/nexus status nexus is stopped.

Can't run nexus as nexus user on Amazon Linux 2

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michael.steppe (Michael Steppe) October 7, 2022, 2:07am 9

Thank you so much for this @mles !! I couldn’t figure out why my service wasn’t starting after upgrade and this fixed it - changing permissions under my nexus and sonatype-work directories to the nexus user. Worked like a charm!

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Can't run nexus as nexus user on Amazon Linux 2

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