https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-I-drop-use-of-the-etc-hadoop-conf-slaves-file/m-p/41630#M30598 <P>I believe the file /etc/hadoop/conf/slaves is a hold over from older scripts used to start and stop the cluster. I now use our own scripts for non-Cloudera Manager clusters. I have removed this file&nbsp;and have seen no errors. Will&nbsp;someone please confirm my theory that I can remove this through out all of our CDH clusters.</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:23:16 GMT wmdailey 2022-09-16T10:23:16Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-I-drop-use-of-the-etc-hadoop-conf-slaves-file/m-p/41630#M30598 <P>I believe the file /etc/hadoop/conf/slaves is a hold over from older scripts used to start and stop the cluster. I now use our own scripts for non-Cloudera Manager clusters. I have removed this file&nbsp;and have seen no errors. Will&nbsp;someone please confirm my theory that I can remove this through out all of our CDH clusters.</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:23:16 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-I-drop-use-of-the-etc-hadoop-conf-slaves-file/m-p/41630#M30598 wmdailey 2022-09-16T10:23:16Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-I-drop-use-of-the-etc-hadoop-conf-slaves-file/m-p/41891#M30599 <P>Just to close this out. I removed the slave and the regionserver files from both of my clusters. They have no affect on the CDH environment. This is what I expected as I believed them to be legacy files from older start/stop scripts.</P> Fri, 10 Jun 2016 20:16:32 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Can-I-drop-use-of-the-etc-hadoop-conf-slaves-file/m-p/41891#M30599 wmdailey 2016-06-10T20:16:32Z