Amended question - How to set up the conf folder

[Chris MacKenzie <st...@chrismackenziephotography.co.uk>]

>My $HADOOP_CONF_DIR = /scratch/extra/cm469/hadoop-2.4.1/etc/hadoop/conf
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this for me. Every time I attempt to set up
>the conf directory, I run into a whole load of errors and ssh issues which
>I don¹t see when my config files are in etc/hadoop
>
>I want to understand how to use the conf directory. My ultimate goal is to
>use symbolic links
>
>I have a running cluster based version of hadoop-2.4.1. I start and stop
>the cluster from the RM with:
>
>./hadoop-2.4.1/sbin/start-dfs.sh
>./hadoop-2.4.1/sbin/start-yarn.sh
>
>My understanding is that to use the conf directory my settings should be
>was follows:
>
>
>Settings:
>bash-profile has $HADOOP_CONF_DIR =
>/scratch/extra/cm469/hadoop-2.4.1/etc/hadoop/conf
>Hadoop-env.sh has export
>HADOOP_CONF_DIR=${HADOOP_CONF_DIR:-"/etc/hadoop/conf²}
>
>conf/core-site.xml
>conf/hdfs-site.xml
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>conf/mapred-site.xml
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>conf/yarn-site.xml
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>conf/capacity-scheduler.xml
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>
>etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh
>
>
>etc/hadoop/slaves
>
>etc/hadoop/masters
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Chris MacKenzie
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