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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-4603) Installation on Solaris needs additional PATH setting

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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-4603:
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Calling /usr/ucb/whoami directly is definitely the way to go, IMO.  It is going to exist on all but the most hardened of Solaris boxes.

> Installation on Solaris needs additional PATH setting
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4603
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4603
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: fs
>    Affects Versions: 0.18.2
>         Environment: Solaris 10 x86
>            Reporter: Jon Brisbin
>         Attachments: HADOOP-4603, id_instead_of_whoami.diff
>
>
> A default installation as outlined in the docs won't start on Solaris 10 x86. The "whoami" utility is in path "/usr/ucb" on Solaris 10, which isn't in the standard PATH environment variable unless the user has added that specifically. The documentation should reflect this.
> Solaris 10 also seemed to throw NPEs if you didn't explicitly set the IP address to bind the servers to. Simply overriding the IP address fixes the problem.

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