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Ted Yu commented on HBASE-7196: ------------------------------- Take a look at this method in FileSystem from hadoop: {code} public abstract boolean delete(Path f) throws IOException; {code} > 'hbase shell status' throws exception when HBase is not running > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-7196 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7196 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.94.1 > Reporter: Oleg Zhurakousky > > Its kind of a nuisance bug. One would assume that 'status' command should > simply return something along the lines of "HBase is not running" -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira