Fantastic. Thanks Manikumar. On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 at 14:39 Manikumar <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> you can run as a background process by passing "-daemon" option to > kafka-run-class.sh script. > This script uses nohup to run as background process. > > ex: kafka-run-class.sh -daemon kafka.tools.MirrorMaker ... ... > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Greenhorn Techie < > greenhorntec...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am still novice to Kafka and hence this rudimentary question. > > > > When I run MirrorMaker process from a bash cli, the cli prompt doesn't > > return once I run the MirrorMaker command. Does that mean, I should only > > run MirrorMaker as a background process if I need to have it running all > > the time? We are backing up Kafka data from one cluster to another and > > using MirrorMaker for the same. Hence this is needed to be running all > the > > time once initiated. > > > > I am running it by passing nohup signal as well to the MirrorMaker > command. > > > > Thanks > > >