Activemq will not start on my Ubuntu VM

Question

I'm trying to run activemq on my ubuntu virtual machine but have constantly been running into issues getting it to start up. I've tried downloading the binary and source with no luck. Currently I have downloaded the source, run "mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true" and mvn reported successful installation. I then hunted around in my .m2 folder found apache-activemq-5.5.1-bin.tar.gz and extracted it to my home/USERNAME dir and attempted to run "bash bin/activemq start" only to receive the following error.

INFO: Loading '/etc/default/activemq'
INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java'
INFO: Starting - inspect logfiles specified in logging.properties
 and log4j.properties     
to get details
bin/activemq: line 370: /usr/bin/java -Xms256M -Xmx256M -Dorg.apache.activemq.UseDedicatedTaskRunner=true
 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties
 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
 -Dactivemq.classpath="/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/conf;"
 -Dactivemq.home="/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1"  
-Dactivemq.base="/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1"
-jar "/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/bin/run.jar" start >/dev/null 2>&1 & 
 RET="$?"; APID="$!";
 echo $APID > /home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/data/activemq.pid;
 echo "INFO: pidfile created : '/home/jacob/activeMq1/apache-activemq-5.5.1/data/activemq.pid' (pid '$APID')";
 exit $RET: No such file or directory    

Has any one run into this type of error before?

Answer 1

sudo is necessary.

bin$ sudo ./activemq start

bin$ sudo ./activemq status INFO: Loading '/opt/runtime/apache-activemq-5.11.1/bin/env' INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java' ActiveMQ is running (pid '29887')