Kibana: Setting pid.file in /etc/kibana/kibana.yml cause: EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/run/kibana.pid'

[gavenkoa]

elasticsearch-5.4.0.deb
filebeat-5.4.0-amd64.deb
kibana-5.4.0-amd64.deb

bash# uname -a
Linux desktop 4.8.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.11-1 (2016-12-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce:

1. Grab from official site and pkgs -i *.deb
2. uncomment pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid in /etc/kibana/kibana.yml
3. sudo service kibana start

cat /var/log/kibana/kibana.stderr:

FATAL { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/run/kibana.pid'
    at Error (native)
  cause: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/run/kibana.pid'
       at Error (native)
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'open',
     path: '/var/run/kibana.pid' },
  isOperational: true,
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '/var/run/kibana.pid' }

[jbudz]

I'd like for this to be the default setting on packages. The problem here is the kibana server is running as user kibana and /var/run needs root. The package service will need to create a folder owned by kibana on startup.

[saikrishnagaddipati]

+1

[jjuu]

I change the owner of /var/run/kibana.pid to kibana to solve this(work around way).

[nreese]

@jbudz Is this still an issue? Looks like you merged a PR that reference this issue. Can this be closed?

[martinhynar]

Running kibana 7.6.0 on CentOs 7.7 and just faced this problem. Using /var/run/kibana folder with proper ownership resolves the problem. To support this, elasticsearch package uses exactly the same approach.

[archon810]

OpenSUSE 15.1, no /var/run/kibana pid file created by default. Elasticsearch does, as mentioned, and handles all permissions. pid files are so standard on Linux, Kibana should support it out of the box.