This comes up every so often. Likely we should create a FAQ for this (anyone?) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1780
Take a look at the mailing list archives, here's one http://markmail.org/message/cvzz3tq3gievicqe Patrick On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Matthias Ogden <[email protected]> wrote: > The "myid" file is currently causing me a fair bit of grief because I have > to manually create the file on each host in my cluster. > > Is there a philosophical reason why it wouldn't be possible to change > ZooKeeper to support a command-line argument instead of the myid file? Then > I could provide custom launch args to each instance while leaving the host > bootstrapping alone.
