Hi David, The --config parameter to hadoop expects a configuration directory, not a file. Your file still needs to be named hadoop-site.xml (or in newer versions core-site, hdfs-site, or mapred-site.xml)
Hope that helps -Todd On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM, David Been <daveb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running start-all.sh it logs the above message (only for tasktracker), > i figured out it was essentially the following command, then also > tried to pick up a specific config. > Full message at the bottom > > hadoop --config ../conf tasktracker > // start-all.sh uses this command What conf files does it > use when the dir is specified? > hadoop --config ../conf/hadoop-localhost.xml tasktracker > // same thing, see mapred.job.tracker setting below > hadoop tasktracker > // same thing > > I tried to debug this also, but am not figuring out where > mapred.job.tracker=local is set, it is in None of my config files. > some type of default that my xml file isn't overriding? > > hadoop-localhost.xml has: > > <property> > <name>mapred.job.tracker</name> > <value>localhost:54311</value> > <description>The host and port that the MapReduce job tracker runs > at. If "local", then jobs are run in-process as a single map > and reduce task. > </description> > </property> > > 2009-09-29 07:07:08,488 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: > Can not start task tracker because java.lang.RuntimeException: Not a > host:port pair: local > at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:136) > at org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils.createSocketAddr(NetUtils.java:123) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.getAddress(JobTracker.java:1756) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.<init>(TaskTracker.java:938) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker.main(TaskTracker.java:2881) >
