Thanks Roman. I was using the AWS Redhat instances. It logs me in under root, I had to create a separate user, redhat and su to that user to install bigtop. As long as it isn't a reserved user name used by the scripts we are ok I think.
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Doug Chang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The wiki on the bigtop pages says for the CENTOS version to download the > > bigtop.repo file as root. > > > > Then I think we are supposed to create a separate user such as hadoop > using > > > > ~]# adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --user-group --create-home hadoop > > No, no. That's done automatically by packages. > > > once the hadoop user is created we can: su hadoop, and install the > hadoop > > components b/c otherwise the instructions su yum install hadoop\* wouldnt > > make sense.... > > It should've been sudo, not su. > > > not sure if this is correct or not. Can update the wiki page with these > > steps if this makes sense. > > sudo yum install hadoop\* > > should do the trick -- no manual user creation needed. > > Thanks, > Roman. >
