[MAPREDUCE-4219] make default container-executor.conf.dir be a path relative to the container-executor binary

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 30/Apr/12 16:18
• Updated: 23/May/12 20:28
• Resolved: 02/May/12 22:54

Description

Currently, container-executor binary has an absolute pathname of its configuration file baked in. This prevents an easy relocation of the configuration files when dealing with multiple Hadoop installs on the same node. It would be nice to at least allow for a relative path resolution starting from the location of the container-executor binary itself. Something like

../etc/hadoop/

Thoughts?