Hi, Can you try this? bin/zkCli.sh 127.0.0.1:2181
The -server command was added later as far as I remember. Thanks mahadev On 12/9/09 9:05 AM, "Something Something" <mailinglist...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to start ZooKeeper on an EC2 instance. Here's what I did: > > 1) Downloaded & Unpacked ZooKeeper 3.1.1 on EC2 instance. > 2) cp /conf/zoo_sample.cfg /conf/zoo.cfg > 3) Changed the dataDir path to point to my EBS volume. > 4) In one command window, ran /bin/zkServer.sh start > (The last message I see is... "Snapshotting: 0) > > 5) Opened another command window, and ran jps > (This shows a new process called, QuorumPeerMain. That's the only one I > see.) > > 6) As per documentation, tried > > bin/zkCli.sh -server 127.0.0.1:2181 > > (This gives me IOException: USAGE) > > 7) So I ran: > > bin/zkCli.sh -server 127.0.0.1:2181 ls > > Got UnknownHostException: -server > > 8) So I tried various ways of specifying IP address in EC2, such as: > > 10.xx.xx.xx > ec2-xx-xx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com > domU-12-31-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute-1.internal > domU-12-31-xx-xx-xx-xx > > None of them worked. Keep getting UnknownHostException. > > What am I doing wrong. Please help. Thanks.