I suspect you are doing something wrong because both the released archive (I just checked) and the tag (as shown here: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-1.2.2/bin/cassandra.in.sh) have the cassandra.in.sh file.
-- Sylvain On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Hiller, Dean <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> wrote: > On git, I checkout out tag 1.2.2 and built it and then tar –xvf the bin > distro, but it > > 1. Has extra *.class files in apache-cassandra-1.2.2-SNAPSHOT/bin > directory > 2. Is missing the cassandra.in.sh so it would not actually start > properly? > > The second one took me a while to figure out. This makes me unsure if the > tag is actually matching what was released? > > Thanks, > Dean >