[HADOOP-2993] Specify which JAVA_HOME should be set

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: site
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: documentation

Environment

irrelevant---issue w/ web documentation

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Arun Murthy
• Reporter: Jason Rennie
• Created: 11/Mar/08 01:17
• Updated: 21/May/08 20:05
• Resolved: 13/Apr/08 05:07

Description

Quickstart page (http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/quickstart.html) specifies that user should set JAVA_HOME under "1." of "Required Software". But, it does not specify where this should be set. My instinct (as would be the instinct of any un*x user) was to set this in his/her shell/profie/rcfile. Please specify that this should be specified in conf/hadoop-env.sh. Yes, this is clarified later under "Download", but is easy to miss, especially since the user will think that he/she had already set JAVA_HOME.