Starting Cassandra as a service
Start the Cassandra Java server process for packaged installations.
Start the Cassandra Java server process for packaged installations. Startup scripts are provided in /etc/init.d. The service runs as the cassandra user.
Procedure
You must have root or sudo permissions to start Cassandra as a service.
On initial start-up, each node must be started one at a time, starting with
your seed nodes:
$ sudo service cassandra start
On Enterprise Linux systems, the Cassandra service runs as a java
process.