How to run elasticsearch as a service on CentOS 5

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I found only this official guide to install Elasticsearch 2.0 as a service but there is no mention of CENTOS5. What are the steps to install ES as a service on CentOS5?

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CentOS is based on RedHat and should use the RPM distribution, start it as follows:

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add elasticsearch
sudo service elasticsearch start

Accepted Answer

CentOS is based on RedHat and should use the RPM distribution, start it as follows:sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add elasticsearchsudo service elasticsearch start

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