Update: on another mailing list it was shown how to use the hadoop binary with the 'jobs -kill' command to kill a job.
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:17 , Keith Wiley wrote: > So I ^C a job from the command line and get my prompt back, but sometimes the > job remains on the cluster, I can see it on the admin web UI, and sometimes > it lingers there for hours before finally getting flushed. > > Is there a way to kill a hadoop job once the command line prompt has > returned, once the local process has basically ended? > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > Keith Wiley [email protected] > www.keithwiley.com > > "And what if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we're just making God > madder and madder!" > -- Homer Simpson > ________________________________________________________________________________ > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley [email protected] www.keithwiley.com "What I primarily learned in grad school is how much I *don't* know. Consequently, I left grad school with a higher ignorance to knowledge ratio than when I entered." -- Keith Wiley ________________________________________________________________________________
