Hi! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Doug Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > The wiki on the bigtop pages says for the CENTOS version to download the > bigtop.repo file as root. > > Then I think we are supposed to create a separate user such as hadoop using > > ~]# adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --user-group --create-home hadoop
No, no. That's done automatically by packages. > once the hadoop user is created we can: su hadoop, and install the hadoop > components b/c otherwise the instructions su yum install hadoop\* wouldnt > make sense.... It should've been sudo, not su. > not sure if this is correct or not. Can update the wiki page with these > steps if this makes sense. sudo yum install hadoop\* should do the trick -- no manual user creation needed. Thanks, Roman.
