assume you're using a *nix system, the command to check which program is using port 9160: netstat -anp | grep 9160
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Bob Futrelle <[email protected]>wrote: > I have been using cqlsh (and --cql3) successfully for a few weeks. > But yesterday it stopped working, with the all too familiar, > > "Connection error: Could not connect to localhost:9160" > > Still got the same message, 9160, after I changed the rpc_port in the yaml > file to 9161 or 9159. > > I recently installed the Maven plugin in Eclipse, so I thought that might > be the problem. (My prototyping/research code is so simple that I've used > Eclipse's builds with no problems for years. Maven would be overkill.) > > I reread the various Cassandra docs, reinstalled Cassandra > (apache-cassandra-1.1.7) recreated the var/lib directories, rebooted my > machine, restarted Eclipse, that's about all I could think of. Eclipse was > going to be the next stage for me after various cqlsh experiments, so it > shouldn't have any effect on the CLI. I'm no expert on ports and the > like. I don't do web servers/clients. My expertise is in the Java/Swing > systems I build for NLP research. Now that I'm retired and working from > home, I can't just walk down the hall and talk with our systems experts. > > - Bob Futrelle > >
