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For CDH 5.7.0 what is the full path to an HDFS datanode's PID file?

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For CDH 5.7.0 what is the full path to an HDFS datanode's PID file?

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@JeffKubina

 

Oops, that was overkill... forgot that supervisorctl status output has the PID column already...  So, you can run:

 

/usr/lib64/cmf/agent/build/env/bin/supervisorctl -c /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/supervisor/supervisord.conf status

 

The PID will be the 4th column.

 

-Ben

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Could you check your /tmp . 

 

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I did, it's not in /tmp.

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Champion

check the status of datanode dameon in that host

meantime the pfile should be in 

/var/run/hadoop-hdfs/hadoop-hdfs-datanode.pid

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I can get the PID via a "pgrep -fa datanode" but would prefer to find where
it writes its PID to a file.

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Check the below location for datanode pid file 

/var/run/hadoop-hdfs/

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@JeffKubina,

 

Since the supervisor starts CM managed processes, there is no PID file for the processes it starts.

 

Short answer:  there is no PID file.

 

-Ben

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So what is the recommended way of getting the datanodes PID?

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@JeffKubina,

 

While there are a number of ways to get the PID (like ps aux |grep ....), this is one I just thought up:

 

/usr/lib64/cmf/agent/build/env/bin/supervisorctl -c /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/supervisor/supervisord.conf pid `ls -lrt /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/ | awk '{print $9}' |grep DATANODE| tail -1`

 

What it does is run supervisor's client using the Cloudera Manager sueprvisord.conf file to retrieve a pid file.  The backticks execute a command to get the most recent process directory to pass into the "pid" command of supervisorctl.  You can see the process names and statuses using the following:

 

/usr/lib64/cmf/agent/build/env/bin/supervisorctl -c /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/supervisor/supervisord.conf status

 

-Ben

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@JeffKubina

 

Oops, that was overkill... forgot that supervisorctl status output has the PID column already...  So, you can run:

 

/usr/lib64/cmf/agent/build/env/bin/supervisorctl -c /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/supervisor/supervisord.conf status

 

The PID will be the 4th column.

 

-Ben