Hadoop uses invalid names for environment variables ---------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6388 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6388 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Simone Leo Variable names cannot contain dots and this is enforced starting from bash 4.0, see [http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-b...@gnu.org/msg05726.html]. An example of Hadoop functionality that breaks after upgrading to bash 4.0 is running Pipes applications: the "hadoop.pipes.command.port" var is not passed and applications crash with "Hadoop Pipes Exception: Illegal text protocol command". -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.