my configurations are
hduser@worker1:/usr/local/hadoop/conf$ jps The program \'jps\' can be found in the following packages: * openjdk-6-jdk * openjdk-7-jd
This might also be a reason. Its simple: See if $javac works. Note: $java might work, check javac. If $javac is not working then $jps will not work either. So you might want to do something like
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
and try again. both javac and jps. good luck.