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cqlsh: error: no such option: --request-timeout

On my Mac, I am using cqlsh version 5.0.1

On my Ubuntu, I am also on cqlsh 5.0.1

(both queried with which cqlsh)

I run the following command on both boxes (both have a cassandra instance locally)

cqlsh --request-timeout=30 -k authks 127.0.0.1 -e "copy users to 'users.tmp.csv' with escape='\"' and null='null' and maxrequests=2 and INGESTRATE=10000 and CHUNKSIZE=200;

On Mac it works. On Ubuntu, I get the following error:

cqlsh: error: no such option: --request-timeout

What can I do to fix this?

Solution

  • This seems to be related to using pip install cqlsh which is not supported by the apache team.

    The answer is to install cassandra properly from the apache cassandra site. Even then you may have some path issues as you will have two python libraries with cqlshlib in them.

    Hence, having installed cassandra, you may want to visit this question for further debugging