hduser@master:~> /usr/java/jdk1.7.0/bin/jps 20907 TaskTracker
20629 SecondaryNameNode 25863 Jps 20777 JobTracker 20383 NameNode 20507 DataNode hduser@master:~> stop- stop-all.sh stop-balancer.sh stop-dfs.sh stop-mapred.sh hduser@master:~> stop-all.sh no jobtracker to stop master: no tasktracker to stop slave: no tasktracker to stop no namenode to stop master: no datanode to stop slave: no datanode to stop master: no secondarynamenode to stop hduser@master:~> as you can see jps shows that the daemons are running but I cant stop them with the stop-all.sh command. Does anyone have an idea for why this is happening ? -SB