What are the symptoms? Pipes should run out of the box in a standard installation. BTW what version of bash are you using? Is it bash 4.0 by any chance? See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6388
--gianluigi On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 14:13 -0700, Keith Wiley wrote: > My cluster admin noticed that there is some additional pipes package he could > add to the cluster configuration, but he admits to knowing very little about > how the C++ pipes component of Hadoop works. > > Can you offer any insight into this cluster configuration package? What > exactly does it do that makes a cluster capable of running pipes programs > (and what symptom should its absence present from a user's point of view)? > > On Mar 30, 2010, at 13:43 , Gianluigi Zanetti wrote: > > > Hello. > > Did you try following the tutorial in > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/C++WordCount ? > > > > We use C++ pipes in production on a large cluster, and it works. > > > > --gianluigi > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com > www.keithwiley.com > > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with > sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." > -- Galileo Galilei > ________________________________________________________________________________ > > >
