How to setup elasticsearch as a service on joyent

Question

I am trying to start elasticsearch as a service on joyent smartOs instance without luck. The instance I´m using is a standard 64-bit java instance. This is the service manifest file I´m using:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1">

<service_bundle type="manifest" name="es">

<service name="database/es" type="service" version="1">

    <create_default_instance enabled="true"/>

    <single_instance/>

    <dependency name="network" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service">
        <service_fmri value="svc:/milestone/network:default"/>
    </dependency>

    <dependency name="filesystem" grouping="require_all" restart_on="error" type="service">
        <service_fmri value="svc:/system/filesystem/local"/>
    </dependency>

    <method_context>
              <method_credential user='admin' />
    </method_context>

    <exec_method type="method" name="start" exec="/home/admin/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch"
                 timeout_seconds="60"/>

    <exec_method type="method" name="stop" exec=":kill" timeout_seconds="60"/>

    <property_group name="startd" type="framework">
        <propval name="duration" type="astring" value="child"/>


        <propval name="ignore_error" type="astring" value="core,signal"/>
    </property_group>

    <property_group name="application" type="application">

    </property_group>


    <stability value="Evolving"/>

    <template>
        <common_name>
            <loctext xml:lang="C">
                es
            </loctext>
        </common_name>
    </template>

</service>

</service_bundle>

I import and enable the manifest file with

svccfg import es.xml
svcadm enable es

I then expect the service to run, but the elasticsearch server is not responding. And if I inspect the services using svcs I sometimes ge

offline*       16:21:53 svc:/database/es:default

And sometimes:

online*        16:22:24 svc:/database/es:default

And even sometimes without the asterix.

Answer 1

look at:

/var/svc/log/database-es:default.log

and check your JAVA_HOME and PATH variables.