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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Starting Cassandra

To start Cassandra locally, execute the Cassandra script. If no arguments are passed, it will run in the foreground. To have it run in the background, send the -p flag with a destination file for the Process ID (PID):

cd cassandrabin/cassandra -p cassandra.pid

This will store the PID of the Cassandra process in a file named cassandra.pid in the local/cassandra directory. Several messages will be dumped to the screen. The node is successfully running when you see this message:

Starting listening for CQL clients on localhost/192.168.0.101:9042 (unencrypted).

This can also be verified with the nodetool status command:

bin/nodetool statusDatacenter: ClockworkAngels===========================Status=Up/Down|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving ...
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