Github user shivaram commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/58#issuecomment-36481848 Well I typically go to the EC2 console and just start the master node, get the hostname and login using ssh. IMHO the scripts are useful for setting up a whole cluster, so doing things just on a master node might mess things up.
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