Hello, I've created a spark cluster on ec2 using the spark-ec2 script. I would like to be able to modify the logging level of the spark-shell when it is running on the master. I've copied the log4j.properties template file and changed the root logger level to WARN and that doesn't seem to have any effect. I still see tons of INFO messages in the shell.
I can import the log4j classes at the shell prompt and call Logger.getLogger("org").setLevel(Level.WARN) to set the level and that does work but I'd prefer to not have to do that every time I run the shell. Any suggestions? Thanks.