Greets, > Does anyone run Hadoop without SSH? > > Windows/Vista has a lot of problems with CYGWIN and SSHD. Unless the > phase of the moon is just right and you have a magic rabbits foot it > just doesn't work. I've spent much time trying to fix it just so I can > do some Hadoop development.
You don't have to have a full-fledged Hadoop cluster (especially on Windows) for development. MiniRC cluster is more than sufficient for most tasks. > Since it doesn't work, I'd like to bypass the SSH issue entirely. > > Can I simply rewrite the startup scripts to initiate the Hadoop > components manually? Has anyone done this? You don't need to rewrite anything. You can just run "./hadoop-daemon.sh start [service-you-want]" on every machine. Our installation of Hadoop works without any ssh access for Hadoop at all: all Hadoop services get started by normal init scripts when every machine boots, and runs for good. -- WBR, Mikhail Yakshin
