I have done chmod only for mapper/reducer/combiner for -file it just checks for availability of file. Is it a good idea to make all files in -file option executable?

Sanjay

On 08-Dec-06, at 1:23 AM, Arkady Borkovsky wrote:

chmod is fine.

In some cases streaming job is a script that uses executables that are shipped using -file option. The executables loose the x permissions and the script fails. (I ran into this and it took me a while to undersatnd the reason of failure).

This may be fixed or alleviated by
(a) adding an -executable option that is similar to -file but does "chmod a+x" (b) at least describing this in user documentation, so that the user knows to do this on her own.

Of course, (a) is preferable...

-- ab

On Dec 7, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Sanjay Dahiya (JIRA) wrote:

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-476?page=all ]

Sanjay Dahiya updated HADOOP-476:
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    Attachment: Hadoop-476.patch

This patch replaces commandline processing with apache CLI2.
Input validation is not done as part of this patch as thats moved to JobClient now. It validates -mapper, -reducer, -combiner, -file attributes to be files present and accessible on disk. It doesn't validate a file to be an executable, that is not available through java File API until Java 6. For now it runs "chmod +x" on the file if its present and accessible.
comments?


Streaming should check for correctness of the task
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                Key: HADOOP-476
                URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-476
            Project: Hadoop
         Issue Type: Bug
         Components: contrib/streaming
           Reporter: arkady borkovsky
        Assigned To: Sanjay Dahiya
        Attachments: Hadoop-476.patch


Currently, if anythin is wrong with streaming job, it dies without any explanation. Before creating and running actual MapReduce job, Streaming should check if: -- the executables (or scripts) for -mapper and -reducer are available and have right permissions
-- the input fragments exist

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