I used the systemd. It worked great. Again, I appreciate everyone's help! ... View more

Thanks to everyone to answered this question. Many were helpful! ... View more

Thanks for your reply... but what I need to do is run several applications only AFTER hdfs is fully started. I want this to happen automatically at OS start. I can get the applications to run at startup but they do not wait until hdfs is fully started. I need to somehow make sure hdfs is started before running the applications. Anyone know how I might accomplish this? Thanks. ... View more