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From: Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:56:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: Command-line arg instead of myid file?
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This comes up every so often. Likely we should create a FAQ for this (anyone?)
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1780

Take a look at the mailing list archives, here's one
http://markmail.org/message/cvzz3tq3gievicqe

Patrick

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Matthias Ogden
<matthias.ogden@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "myid" file is currently causing me a fair bit of grief because I have
> to manually create the file on each host in my cluster.
>
> Is there a philosophical reason why it wouldn't be possible to change
> ZooKeeper to support a command-line argument instead of the myid file? Then
> I could provide custom launch args to each instance while leaving the host
> bootstrapping alone.