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From: Harsh J <qwertymaniac@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:37:51 +0530
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Subject: Re: Not a host:port pair: local
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On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Skye Berghel <sberghel@cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
> java.lang.RuntimeException: Not a host:port pair: local
> SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down JobTracker at facebook-l/134.173.43.9
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<name>mapreduce.jobtracker.address</name>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<value>myserver:8888</value>
> which means that the jobtracker shouldn't be set to local in the first
> place.

"local" is the default value for mapreduce.jobtracker.address
(residing in the JAR's mapred-default.xml). It will be picked up if
there is no other configuration resource to load.

How are you starting your JobTracker by the way?

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Harsh J
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