[ZOOKEEPER-2115] Initialize command succeeds even though it didn't in case of permission errors on the data directory

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: scripts
• Assignee: Biju Nair
• Reporter: Manikandan Narayanaswamy
• Created: 06/Feb/15 00:44
• Updated: 15/Jun/23 21:09

Description

while testing single user mode that the initialize command succeeds even though it didn't in case of permission errors on the data directory:

....
+ exec /usr/lib/zookeeper/bin/zkServer-initialize.sh --myid=1
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/zookeeper/version-2': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/zookeeper/version-2': Permission denied
/usr/lib/zookeeper/bin/zkServer-initialize.sh: line 112: /var/lib/zookeeper/myid: Permission denied