howard chen wrote:
2006-11-07 21:53:35,492 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Can not start task tracker because java.lang.RuntimeException: Bad mapred.job.tracker: local
To run distributed, you must configure mapred.job.tracker and fs.default.name to be a host:port pairs on all hosts, typically in the conf/hadoop-site.xml file. On your slave nodes the values for these are "local", the default. This should be overridden in hadoop-site.xml.
Doug
