check the command line help for cassandra-cli, you can pass it a file name.
e.g. cassandra --host localhost --file schema.txt Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 18/01/2012, at 9:35 AM, Carlos Pérez Miguel wrote: > Hi Ramesh > > You can use the schematool command. I am using it for the same > purposes in Cassandra 0.7.9. > > I use the following line in my cassandra startup script: > > $CASSANDRA_HOME/bin/schematool HOSTNAME 8080 import > > where HOSTNAME is the hostname of your test machine. It will import > the schema from your cassandra.yaml file. > If you execute it and there is already a schema in the cassandra > cluster, you'll get a exception from schematool but no impact to the > cluster. > > Bye > > Carlos Pérez Miguel > > > > 2012/1/17 Ramesh Natarajan <rames...@gmail.com>: >> I usually start cassandra and then use cassandra-cli to import a >> schema. Is there any automated way to load a fixed schema when >> cassandra starts automatically? >> >> I have a test setup where i run cassandra on a single node. I have a >> OS image packaged with cassandra and it automatically starts cassandra >> as a part of OS boot up. >> >> I saw some old references to specify schema in cassandra.yaml. Is >> this still supported in Cassandra 1.x? Are there any examples? >> >> thanks >> Ramesh
