I overcame the issue. Issue was I had "/chroot" at the end.That is how mentioned in the documentationkafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_modify_topic.
Thank you. On 14 October 2016 at 12:25, Ratha v <vijayara...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI all; > > I try to delete a existing topic (I checked using kafka management > console) using following command; > > #./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zookeeper.xx.com:2181/chroot --delete > --topic testTopic > > But it says topic not available in zookeeper.[1] > I create those topics at runtime . (I think it is created in kafka > clusters? ) > > How can I delete the topic using this bash script? > > [1]Error while executing topic command : Topic targettopic does not exist > on ZK path zookeeper.xx.com:2181/chroot > > *[2016-10-14 11:58:59,919] ERROR java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Topic > streamtargettopic does not exist on ZK path zookeeper.xx.com:2181/chroot > <http://zookeeper.xx.com:2181/chroot>* > > *at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.deleteTopic(TopicCommand.scala:169)* > > *at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:69)* > > *at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)* > > -- > -Ratha > http://vvratha.blogspot.com/ > -- -Ratha http://vvratha.blogspot.com/