On Apr 1, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sandhya E wrote:

Hi

When the host is listed in slaves file both DataNode and TaskTracker
are started on that host. Is there a way in which we can configure a
node to be datanode and not tasktracker.

If you use hadoop-daemons.sh, you can pass a host list. So do:

ssh namenode hadoop-daemon.sh start namenode
ssh jobtracker hadoop-daemon.sh start jobtracker
hadoop-daemons.sh -hosts dfs.slaves start datanode
hadoop-daemons.hs -hosts mapred.slaves start tasktracker

-- Owen

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