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Posted to commits@accumulo.apache.org by el...@apache.org on 2013/12/04 03:56:19 UTC

git commit: ACCUMULO-1960 Update README for continuous ingest for agitator improvements.

Updated Branches:
  refs/heads/1.5.1-SNAPSHOT 57af8138a -> 0817cdc73


ACCUMULO-1960 Update README for continuous ingest for agitator improvements.


Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/commit/0817cdc7
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/tree/0817cdc7
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/diff/0817cdc7

Branch: refs/heads/1.5.1-SNAPSHOT
Commit: 0817cdc73d3dcfd5cfef53b57476a89f42f25490
Parents: 57af813
Author: Josh Elser <el...@apache.org>
Authored: Tue Dec 3 21:53:32 2013 -0500
Committer: Josh Elser <el...@apache.org>
Committed: Tue Dec 3 21:53:32 2013 -0500

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 test/system/continuous/README | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/blob/0817cdc7/test/system/continuous/README
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diff --git a/test/system/continuous/README b/test/system/continuous/README
index 62af7e3..713c18f 100644
--- a/test/system/continuous/README
+++ b/test/system/continuous/README
@@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ service that continually collect statistics about accumulo and HDFS.
  stop-stats.sh 
 
 Optionally, start the agitator to periodically kill the tabletserver and/or datanode
-process(es) on random nodes. This must be run as root.
+process(es) on random nodes. You can run this script as root and it will properly start
+processes as the user you configured in continuous-env.sh (HDFS_USER for the Datanode and
+ACCUMULO_USER for Accumulo processes). If you run it as yourself and the HDFS_USER and 
+ACCUMULO_USER values are the same as your user, the agitator will not change users. In
+the case where you run the agitator as a non-privileged user which isn't the same as HDFS_USER
+nor ACCUMULO_USER, the agitator will attempt to `sudo` to these users which relies on correct 
+configuration of sudo.
 
  start-agitator.sh
  stop-agitator.sh