If you're using the start-dfs.sh script, it's ssh'ing into every machine in
conf/masters to start a SecondaryNameNode instance. The NameNode itself is
started locally. It then ssh's into every machine in conf/slaves to start a
DataNode instance.

Similarly, the JT is started locally by start-mapred.sh. But it sshs to
every machine in conf/slaves to start a TaskTracker.

- Aaron

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Foss User <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a namenode and job tracker on two different machines.
>
> I see that a namenode tries to do an ssh log into itself (name node),
> job tracker as well as all slave machines.
>
> However, the job tracker tries to do an ssh log into the slave
> machines only. Why this difference in behavior? Could someone please
> explain what is going on behind the scenes?
>

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