Hello there, Have you tried creating the myid file manually? Does it work?
-Flavio > On 04 May 2016, at 03:50, Pranavan Theivendiram <pranavan...@cse.mrt.ac.lk> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am getting the following error in server start up. > > *ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default* > *Using config: /home/pranavan/2K16/zookeeper-3.4.8/bin/../conf/zoo.cfg* > *mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/zookeeper’: Permission denied* > *Starting zookeeper ... ./zkServer.sh: line 149: > /home/zookeeper/zookeeper_server.pid: No such file or directory* > *FAILED TO WRITE PID* > > I started with root privileges. I did not have any problems. The server is > starting up properly. > > The proposed solution in stackoverflow is as follows. > > Link - > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19295978/failed-to-write-pid-installing-zookeeper > > Even that solution is not working for me. > > Can you please provide a method to start the server without user privileges? > > Thanks > > > > *T. Pranavan* > *Junior Consultant | Department of Computer Science & Engineering > ,University of Moratuwa* > *Mobile| *0775136836