My understanding is that conf/masters is used only by the bin/ or sbin/ scripts - like start-*.sh, while the conf property is used by the Hadoop daemons running on that particular node.
Hope that helps, Karthik On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Momina Khan <momina.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to setup a hadoop cluster and I was wondering what is > difference in specifying the Jobtracker IP in *mapred.job.tracker* in * > mapred-site.xml* and noting the same IP in *conf/masters* file? Do I need > to do both or just one. If I need to do both, is there a difference in how > the two are used? > > thankx > momina >
