Hi, Cassandra starts JVM as "$JAVA -ea -cp $CLASSPATH...".
Looks like $JAVA is coming is empty in your case, hence the error "exec -ea not found". Do you not have java installed? Please install it and set JAVA_HOME appropriately and retry. Cheers. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Hernán Quevedo <alexandros.c....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, all. >> >> I´m new at this and haven´t been able to install cassandra in debian >> 6. After uncompressing the tar and creating var/log and var/lib >> directories, the command bin/cassandra -f results in message "exec: >> 357 -ea not found" preventing cassandra from run the process README >> file says it is suppose to start. >> >> Any help would be very appreciated. >> >> Thnx! >> >> -- Roshan Blog: http://roshandawrani.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @roshandawrani <http://twitter.com/roshandawrani> Skype: roshandawrani