Hi,
I didn't say Nutch depends on Linux - it does not depend on Linux.  Your 
OpenSolaris must also have whoami command, but it may not be installed.

Otis
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----- Original Message ----
> From: vkblogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:23:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Error: Failed to get the current user's information: Login 
> failed: Cannot run program "whoami":
> 
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> I am running nutch on opensolaris and this explains why it bin/nutch is
> failing.
> I am surprised that nutch source code was modified to depend on linux. I did
> not have a problem like this before.
> 
> Do you know if this can be modified by the code owner to make it platform
> agnostic once more?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> 
> ogjunk-nutch wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like your OS doesn't have the "whoami" command, which is a part
> > of "coreutils" (on Linux at least).
> >  
> > $ whoami
> > otis
> > 
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> > ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: v k 
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:19:42 PM
> >> Subject: Error: Failed to get the current user's information: Login
> >> failed: Cannot run program "whoami":
> >> 
> >> Hello:
> >> 
> >> I am using the latest svn trunk of nutch. The build was successful but
> >> when I run bin/nutch command I get the error:
> >> 
> >> Injector: starting
> >> Injector: crawlDb: crawl/crawldb
> >> Injector: urlDir: urls
> >> Injector: Converting injected urls to crawl db entries.
> >> Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Failed to get the
> >> current user's information: Login failed: Cannot run program "whoami":
> >> error=2, No such file or directory
> >>         at
> >> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:466)
> >>         at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:805)
> >>         at org.apache.nutch.crawl.Injector.inject(Injector.java:157)
> >>         at org.apache.nutch.crawl.Crawl.main(Crawl.java:113)
> >> 
> >> Did this happen to anyone else?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> VK
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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