Thanks Otis.

Sorry about the false alarm. I checked /usr/ucb and whoami is installed
there. I added to my .bashrc

It works now.



ogjunk-nutch wrote:
> 
> 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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