Thanks for the replies. Harsh J, "hadoop classpath" was exactly what I needed. Got it working now.
Cheers, Krishna On 6 January 2013 11:14, John Hancock <jhancock1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Krishna, > > You should be able to take the command you are using to start the hadoop > job (hadoop jar ..) and paste it into a text file. Then make the file > executable and call it as a shell script in a CRON job (crontab -e). To be > safe, use absolute paths to reference any files in the command. > > Or, I suppose what you crazy kids and your object oriented programming > would do is use Quartz. > > > -John > > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Chitresh Deshpande < > chitreshdeshpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Krishna, >> >> I dont know what do you mean by Hadoop daemon, but if you mean run when >> all the other hadoop daemons like namenode, datanode etc are started, then >> you can change start-all file in conf directory. >> >> Thanks and Regards, >> Chitresh Deshpande >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Krishna Rao <krishnanj...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi al, >>> >>> I have a java application jar that converts some files and writes >>> directly into hdfs. >>> >>> If I want to run the jar I need to run it using "hadoop jar <application >>> jar>", so that it can access HDFS (that is running "java -jar <application >>> jar> results in a HDFS error"). >>> >>> Is it possible to run an jar as a hadoop daemon? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Krishna >>> >> >> >
