I managed to solve this by moving contents on hdfs-site.xml to core-site.xml
Thanks On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Leo Leung <lle...@ddn.com> wrote: > Hi Nitin, > > > > Normally your conf should reside in /etc/hadoop/conf (if you don't have > one. Copy it from the namenode - and keep it sync) > > > > hadoop (script) by default depends on hadoop-setup.sh which depends on > hadoop-env.sh in /etc/hadoop/conf > > > > Or during runtime specify the config dir > > i.e: > > > > [hdfs]$ hadoop [--config <path to your config dir>] <commands> > > > > > > P.S. Some useful links: > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FrontPage > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ > > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r1.0.3/ > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: d...@paraliatech.com [mailto:d...@paraliatech.com] On Behalf Of > Dave Beech > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 6:18 AM > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: hadoop dfs -ls > > > > Hi Nitin > > > > It's likely that your hadoop command isn't finding the right configuration. > > In particular it doesn't know where your namenode is > (fs.default.namesetting in core-site.xml) > > > > Maybe you need to set the HADOOP_CONF_DIR environment variable to point to > your conf directory. > > > > Dave > > > > On 13 July 2012 14:11, Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com<mailto: > nitinpawar...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have done setup numerous times but this time i did after some break. > > > > > > I managed to get the cluster up and running fine but when I do hadoop > > > dfs -ls / > > > > > > it actually shows me contents of linux file system > > > > > > I am using hadoop-1.0.3 on rhel5.6 > > > > > > Can anyone suggest what I must have done wrong? > > > > > > -- > > > Nitin Pawar > > > > -- Nitin Pawar