[HADOOP-7708] config generator does not update the properties file if on exists already

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.205.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.205.0, 0.23.0
• Component/s: conf
• Release Note: Fixed hadoop-setup-conf.sh to handle config file consistently. (Eric Yang)
• Assignee: Eric Yang
• Reporter: Arpit Gupta
• Created: 30/Sep/11 18:51
• Updated: 19/Oct/11 00:25
• Resolved: 04/Oct/11 21:53

Description

We are copying configs to the hadoop conf dir but are not using the -f option. This leads to conf file not getting replaced in case the file exists and thus the user never gets the new conf.