Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Mohammad Tariq
Hello list, Does Hbase read the environment variables set in *~/.bashrc*file everytime I issue *bin/start-hbase.sh*??What could be the possible reasons for that?Specially if I have a standalone setup on my local FS. Thank you so much for your time. Warm Regards, Tariq

Re: Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Amandeep Khurana
The start script is a shell script and it forks a new shell when the script is executed. That'll source the bashrc file. On May 11, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Mohammad Tariq donta...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, Does Hbase read the environment variables set in *~/.bashrc*file everytime I

Re: Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Mohammad Tariq
Hello Aman, Thank you so much for the quick response. But why would that happen? I mean the required env variables are present in hbase-env.sh already. What is the need to source bashrc? Consider a scenario wherein you want to run Hbase in standalone mode. You have a Hadoop setup on the same

Re: Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Stack
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mohammad Tariq donta...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Aman, Thank you so much for the quick response. But why would that happen? I mean the required env variables are present in hbase-env.sh already. What is the need to source bashrc? Consider a scenario

Re: Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Mohammad Tariq
Hello sir, Long time :) Yeah, my understanding was same as whatever you have written. But today I noticed that Hbase is picking HADOOP_HOME from bashrc when I was trying to run it in standalone mode(on my local FS). Although all the Hadoop daemons were stopped and Hbase was configured to

Re: Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Amandeep Khurana
The #!/usr/bin/bash command in the script tells the shell to execute the script as a bash script. The execution is done by forking off a new shell instance, inside of which the bashrc is sourced automatically. It's not a HBase script specific phenomena. Like you said - removing the HADOOP_HOME

Re: Does Hbase read .bashrc file??

2013-05-11 Thread Mohammad Tariq
I see. It was actually a Linux thing. Thank you so much for the clarification. Warm Regards, Tariq cloudfront.blogspot.com On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Amandeep Khurana ama...@gmail.com wrote: The #!/usr/bin/bash command in the script tells the shell to execute the script as a bash