hi i posted earlier on the mailing list asking for help as my start_thrift_server.sh file just couldnt start the HadoopThriftServer ... a friend resolved the problem for me the following are the steps ...put here so that they might help someone else wanting to use thhriftfs ...
(1) ran ant on the root of hadoop (2) ran ant on <hadoop root>/src/contrib/thriftfs/ (3) add classes built by ant to start_thrift_server.sh: CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$TOP/build/classes/ (4) add the conf directory to start_thrift_server.sh: CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$TOP/conf/ cheers momina