The Thrift server is embedded in Cassandra, and starts by default. Look for references to Thrift on: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted
Thanks, Stu -----Original Message----- From: "S Ahmed" <sahmed1...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:43pm To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: server needs thrift to run also? I'm trying to follow along the twissandra installation instructions. So to get it running I have to install Thrift. So thrift runs as another service? So communication is done via thrift, which then communicates to Cassandra on another port?