FAILED TO WRITE PID installing Zookeeper

Question

I am new to Zookeeper and it has being a real issue to install it and run. I am not sure what is wrong in here but I will explain what I\'ve being doing to make it more clear:

Answer 1

This seems to be an ownership issue; running the following solved this for me.

$ sudo chown -R $USER /var/lib/zookeeper

N.B. I've outlined my steps below which show the error I was getting (the same as the error in this SO question) and the attempt at trying the solution proposed by a user above, which advised to provide zoo.cfg as an argument.

13:01:29 ✔ ~  :: $ZK/bin/zkServer.sh start
ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default
Using config: /usr/local/Cellar/zookeeper/3.4.14/libexec/bin/../conf/zoo.cfg
Starting zookeeper ... /usr/local/Cellar/zookeeper/3.4.14/libexec/bin/zkServer.sh: line 149: /var/lib/zookeeper/zookeeper_server.pid: Permission denied
FAILED TO WRITE PID

13:01:32 ✘ ~  :: $ZK/bin/zkServer.sh start $ZK/conf/zoo.cfg
ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default
Using config: /usr/local/Cellar/zookeeper/3.4.14/libexec/conf/zoo.cfg
Starting zookeeper ... /usr/local/Cellar/zookeeper/3.4.14/libexec/bin/zkServer.sh: line 149: /var/lib/zookeeper/zookeeper_server.pid: Permission denied
FAILED TO WRITE PID

13:04:45 ✔ /var/lib  :: ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     wheel 128 Apr 19 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root     wheel 864 Apr 19 18:55 ..
drwxr--r--  3 root     wheel  96 Mar 24 15:07 zookeeper
13:04:48 ✔ /var/lib  :: echo $USER
tallamjr
13:06:03 ✔ /var/lib  :: sudo chown -R $USER zookeeper
Password:
13:06:44 ✔ /var/lib  :: ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     wheel 128 Apr 19 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root     wheel 864 Apr 19 18:55 ..
drwxr--r--  3 tallamjr wheel  96 Mar 24 15:07 zookeeper

13:06:48 ✔ ~  :: $ZK/bin/zkServer.sh start
ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default
Using config: /usr/local/Cellar/zookeeper/3.4.14/libexec/bin/../conf/zoo.cfg
Starting zookeeper ... STARTED

REF: - https://askubuntu.com/questions/6723/change-folder-permissions-and-ownership