I ran into the same problem. Part of the patch for Issue 303 addresses this.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-303 ben On Tuesday 20 June 2006 05:03, Philippe Gassmann wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm a new hadoop user, and I would like to know if it's possible to use > a file in the filesystem as a site config file : > eg : in /etc/hadoop/hadoop-site.xml i have my configuration file, and I > want to tell to Hadoop to use it but I cannot find how to do this. > By reading the Hadoop code (Configuration.java), i guess that it is > impossible. > > So here is my question : Why do not add a method > Configuration.addFinalResource(File) and > Configuration.addDefaultResource(File) in the Configuration.java file ?
