we should probably open a jira for this. those should really be debug level messages. all they mean is that a connection closed. the connection in question is for your nc client, so it is totally expected. ben ________________________________________ From: Qian Ye [yeqian.zju@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:26 AM To: zookeeper-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: a question about Zookeep Hi guys, I have a question about connecting to zookeeper by nc or telnet. I ran zookeeper in Multi-Server mode, and connected to the server using $nc 127.0.0.1 2181. So far, all works. Then I tried command "stat", it showed the following: Zookeeper version: 3.1.1-755636, built on 03/18/2009 16:52 GMT Clients: /127.0.0.1:32818[1](queued=0,recved=0,sent=0) Latency min/avg/max: 1/2/3 Received: 217 Sent: 218 Outstanding: 0 Zxid: 0x4 Mode: follower Node count: 4 2009-05-13 17:16:51,615 - WARN [NIOServerCxn.Factory:2181:NIOServerCnxn@417] - Exception causing close of session 0x0 due to java.io.IOException: closing 2009-05-13 17:16:51,615 - INFO [NIOServerCxn.Factory:2181:NIOServerCnxn@752] - closing session:0x0 NIOServerCnxn: java.nio.channels.SocketChannel[connected local=/127.0.0.1:2181 remote=/ 127.0.0.1:32818] and return to the shell. The last two lines were issued by log4j (I think, I'm not so familiar with things about Java :-p). It seems that java.io.IOException was thrown for some reason. I'm not sure about why this happened. Could any one give me some help? -- With Regards! Ye, Qian Made in Zhejiang University