> > Have you tried to run it as another user, not root?
Yep! With no change in result. I get the exact same error message running as a non-privileged user. Thanks Tim On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Marcin Cabaj <marcin.ca...@datasift.com>wrote: > Have you tried to run it as another user, not root? > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Marcin, >> >> Thanks! I'm running the bash shell. And for some reason it also looks >> like bash does understand 'exec'. >> >> [root@beta:~] #echo $SHELL >> /bin/bash >> [root@beta:~] #exec >> >> >> Why it suddenly looses that understanding when it runs the cassandra >> start script, I have no clue. >> >> I even tried changing the script from sh to bash (!#/bin/sh to >> !#/bin/bash). No luck. >> >> Thanks >> Tim >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Marcin Cabaj <marcin.ca...@datasift.com >> > wrote: >> >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> exec is a shell builtin command, what kind of shell do you use? >>> Please run: >>> $ echo $SHELL >>> $ exec >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> hey all.. >>>> >>>> love using the cassandra database. however I've just installed 2.0.6 >>>> onto a new host running CentOS 6.5 and when I try to run ./bin/cassandra -f >>>> (from within the cassandra directory) I see this weird error I've never >>>> seen before >>>> >>>> ./bin/cassandra: line 146: exec: : not found >>>> >>>> What the heck??? exec is a pretty basica comand you find on all unix >>>> systems or so I thought! >>>> >>>> Really confused here.. can anyone offer some help me get cassandra up >>>> and running on this host? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> -- >>>> GPG me!! >>>> >>>> gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> GPG me!! >> >> gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B >> >> > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B