On 12/17/09 4:34 AM, "Starry SHI" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Previous I have met the same problem. Hadoop use linux command "whoami" to
> retrieve the current user, which is not supported in solaris.
Yes it is and I really wish people would stop saying that.
/usr/ucb/whoami is there if you install the SunOS 4.x compat stuff. It just
isn't in the default path, as the BSD commands are considered deprecated on
Solaris (System V).
> There are some
> other errors caused by solaris in running hadoop. If you put hadoop in
> Linux, these problems will disappear.
Most of the non-Linux problems I've seen are related to broken JNI or
assumptions about the output of commands.
