-
root
is the master user that you start off with - “superuser” is the user you create with “root” access.
For example, I always name my superuser “craig” in my videos. Which means I’m able to prefix commands with “sudo
”. Therefore, you’d need to run:
sudo journalctl -u elasticsearch.service -b -e
To get the information that we’re after. Otherwise, you get the message that you posted above.