Policy Server services not starting with non-root user

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

When start policy server with root user, it works fine.

But with non-root user, the output is like,

$ start-all

kill: 156496: no such process

Policy Server did not start properly. Please check the logs for more details.

 

The smps.log shows "Failed to initialize authentication scheme '***'"

Environment

Policy server is running on Linux OS.

Cause

File permission issue.

Resolution

chmod -R 777 <siteminder install folder>

chmod -R 777 <java install folder>