ACCUMULO-1960 Update README for continuous ingest for agitator improvements.
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/commit/0817cdc7 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/tree/0817cdc7 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/diff/0817cdc7 Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: 0817cdc73d3dcfd5cfef53b57476a89f42f25490 Parents: 57af813 Author: Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> Authored: Tue Dec 3 21:53:32 2013 -0500 Committer: Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> Committed: Tue Dec 3 21:53:32 2013 -0500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- test/system/continuous/README | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/blob/0817cdc7/test/system/continuous/README ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/test/system/continuous/README b/test/system/continuous/README index 62af7e3..713c18f 100644 --- a/test/system/continuous/README +++ b/test/system/continuous/README @@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ service that continually collect statistics about accumulo and HDFS. stop-stats.sh Optionally, start the agitator to periodically kill the tabletserver and/or datanode -process(es) on random nodes. This must be run as root. +process(es) on random nodes. You can run this script as root and it will properly start +processes as the user you configured in continuous-env.sh (HDFS_USER for the Datanode and +ACCUMULO_USER for Accumulo processes). If you run it as yourself and the HDFS_USER and +ACCUMULO_USER values are the same as your user, the agitator will not change users. In +the case where you run the agitator as a non-privileged user which isn't the same as HDFS_USER +nor ACCUMULO_USER, the agitator will attempt to `sudo` to these users which relies on correct +configuration of sudo. start-agitator.sh stop-agitator.sh
