Did you read Jonathan's reply? If you can't understand what README says, please let us know where you are stack on.
maki 2011/5/31 Amrita Jayakumar <amritajayakuma...@gmail.com>: > can anyone help me how to start with cassandra??? starting from the > basics??? > > Thanks and Regards, > Amrita > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Here's what README says: >> >> * bin/cassandra -f >> >> Running the startup script with the -f argument will cause Cassandra to >> remain in the foreground and log to standard out. >> >> Now let's try to read and write some data using the command line client. >> >> * bin/cassandra-cli --host localhost >> >> The command line client is interactive so if everything worked you should >> be sitting in front of a prompt... >> >> Connected to: "Test Cluster" on localhost/9160 >> Welcome to cassandra CLI. >> >> Type 'help;' or '?' for help. Type 'quit;' or 'exit;' to quit. >> [default@unknown] >> >> >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Amrita Jayakumar >> <amritajayakuma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Marcus, >> > Can u please tell me how to do that??? I was just following >> > the >> > instructions in the README file that came with the package. >> > >> > Thanks and Regards, >> > Amrita >> > >> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Marcus Bointon >> > <mar...@synchromedia.co.uk> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 30 May 2011, at 10:59, Amrita Jayakumar wrote: >> >> >> >> > I am new to cassandra. I am trying to start the Cassandra single node >> >> > setup using the command >> >> > bin/cassandra -f. But there is no response from the prompt.. this is >> >> > what it shows >> >> >> >> I'm new to this too, but I think you're looking at the wrong thing. >> >> cassandra -f is not an interactive mode, it just runs the server in the >> >> foreground and shows you log output, which is useful for debugging >> >> server >> >> config. The output you have looks like it's working fine. You need to >> >> start >> >> another terminal and connect to it from a cassandra client. >> >> >> >> Marcus >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Ellis >> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support >> http://www.datastax.com > > -- w3m