use ls -l to check if hdfs has the right to access url.txt.
On 9 October 2012 19:40, Bai Shen <baishen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a CDH3 cluster up and running. I'm on the namenode and trying to > copy a file into HDFS. However, whenever I run copyFromLocal, I get a file > does not exist error. > > [root@node1-0 ~]# sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -copyFromLocal /root/url.txt / > copyFromLocal: File /root/url.txt does not exist. > > What am I doing wrong? url.txt exists in /root on the local filesystem. > > Thanks. > -- Best wishes. Zhiwei