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Posted to common-dev@hadoop.apache.org by "Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2006/09/26 00:42:51 UTC

[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-555) Tasks should inherit some of the server's environment

    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-555?page=comments#action_12437685 ] 
            
Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-555:
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I'm confused.  Don't child processes inherit their parent's environment?  They should.

You should be able to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH, etc. in conf/hadoo-env.sh and these should be seen by the child.  If that doesn't work, I think it's a bug that should be fixed.  If it does work, is it sufficient?

> Tasks should inherit some of the server's environment
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-555
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-555
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Owen O'Malley
>
> When the task trackers start up the Task process, they clear the environment variables. It would be better if there was a SERVER config that listed the names of the environment variables that would be copied from the server's enviroment.
> So the task tracker's config would have:
> <property><name>mapred.task.environment</name>
> <value>PATH,LD_LIBRARY_PATH</value></property>

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