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The "GettingStarted" page has been changed by JonHaddad: https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted?action=diff&rev1=103&rev2=104 Comment: updating instructions to no longer require root If you start up Cassandra without the "-f" option, it will run in the background. You can stop the process by killing it, using '`pkill -f CassandraDaemon`', for example. - . Users of recent Linux distributions and Mac OS X Snow Leopard should be able to start up Cassandra simply by untarring and invoking `bin/cassandra -f` with root privileges. Snow Leopard ships with Java 1.6.0 and does not require changing the `JAVA_HOME` environment variable or adding any directory to your `PATH`. On Linux just make sure you have a working Java JDK package installed such as the `openjdk-6-jdk` on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. + . Cassandra Users of recent Linux distributions and Mac OS X Snow Leopard should be able to start up Cassandra simply by untarring and invoking `bin/cassandra -f`. Since Cassandra 2.1, the tar.gz download has shipped with the log and data directories defaulting to the Cassandra directory. Versions prior defaulted to `/var/log/cassandra` and `/var/lib/cassandra/`. Due to this it is necessary to either start Cassandra with root privileges or change the `conf/cassandra.yaml` to use a directory owned by the current user. Snow Leopard ships with Java 1.6.0 and does not require changing the `JAVA_HOME` environment variable or adding any directory to your `PATH`. On Linux just make sure you have a working Java JDK package installed such as the `openjdk-6-jdk` on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. == Step 4: Using cqlsh == `bin/cqlsh` is an interactive command line interface for Cassandra. cqlsh allows you to execute CQL (Cassandra Query Language) statements against Cassandra. Using CQL, you can define a schema, insert data, execute queries. Run the following command to connect to your local Cassandra instance with cqlsh: @@ -176, +176 @@ Finally, post a message with all relevant details to the list ([[mailto:[email protected]|subscription required]]), or hop onto [[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cassandra|IRC]] (network irc.freenode.net, channel #cassandra) and let us know. <<BR>> <<BR>> - + ---- '''Footnotes:'''
