Question

This command line usage statement is displayed near the bottom of the Running Cassandra wiki page.

bin/cassandra [-f] [-h] [-p pidfile]

Below it, is an example of a Cassandra plist file for Mac OS X 10.6.x. I’ve only quoted the example’s array of the program arguments for the sake of brevity and clarity.

...
<array>
<string>/opt/local/bin/cassandra</string>
<string>-h</string>
</array>
...

Now, when it comes to adding the optional [-p pidfile] arguments to the program arguments’ array, is it proper to write the string nodes as?

<string>-p</string>
<string>/usr/local/apache/cassandra/0.7.5/runtime/pid.txt</string>

Or as?

<string>-p /usr/local/apache/cassandra/0.7.5/runtime/pid.txt</string>

Answer 1

The former. The latter should work if you omit the space, if cassandra uses something compatible with POSIX getopt().