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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-4603: ------------------------------------------ Calling /usr/ucb/whoami directly is definitely the way to go, IMO. It is going to exist on all but the most hardened of Solaris boxes. > Installation on Solaris needs additional PATH setting > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4603 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4603 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: fs > Affects Versions: 0.18.2 > Environment: Solaris 10 x86 > Reporter: Jon Brisbin > Attachments: HADOOP-4603, id_instead_of_whoami.diff > > > A default installation as outlined in the docs won't start on Solaris 10 x86. > The "whoami" utility is in path "/usr/ucb" on Solaris 10, which isn't in the > standard PATH environment variable unless the user has added that > specifically. The documentation should reflect this. > Solaris 10 also seemed to throw NPEs if you didn't explicitly set the IP > address to bind the servers to. Simply overriding the IP address fixes the > problem. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.