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

Question

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?

Can you try `--connect-timeout` in ubuntu? – Jeffy Mathew May 04 '20 at 06:38 — Jeffy Mathew, May 04 '20 at 06:38
I get the no such option error when I try it on Ubuntu – Jake May 04 '20 at 06:42 — Jake, May 04 '20 at 06:42
`cqlsh --help` will provide with `--connect-timeout` – Jeffy Mathew May 04 '20 at 07:09 — Jeffy Mathew, May 04 '20 at 07:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '20 at 14:26

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

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

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