Finally, I found the solution: on the spark context you can set spark.executorEnv.[EnvironmentVariableName] and these will be available in the environment of the executors
This is in fact documented, but somehow I missed it. https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html#runtime-environment Thanks for all the help though. Jan On 25 Aug 2015, at 08:57, Hemant Bhanawat <hemant9...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, I went in the direction of system vars since beginning probably because > the question was to pass variables to a particular job. > > Anyway, the decision to use either system vars or environment vars would > solely depend on whether you want to make them available to all the spark > processes on a node or to a particular job. > > Are there any other reasons why one would prefer one over the other? > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Raghavendra Pandey > <raghavendra.pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > System properties and environment variables are two different things.. One > can use spark.executor.extraJavaOptions to pass system properties and > spark-env.sh to pass environment variables. > > -raghav > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Hemant Bhanawat <hemant9...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's surprising. Passing the environment variables using > spark.executor.extraJavaOptions=-Dmyenvvar=xxx to the executor and then > fetching them using System.getProperty("myenvvar") has worked for me. > > What is the error that you guys got? > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Sathish Kumaran Vairavelu > <vsathishkuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > spark-env.sh works for me in Spark 1.4 but not > spark.executor.extraJavaOptions. > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:27 AM Raghavendra Pandey > <raghavendra.pan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the only way to pass on environment variables to worker node is to > write it in spark-env.sh file on each worker node. > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Hemant Bhanawat <hemant9...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check for spark.driver.extraJavaOptions and spark.executor.extraJavaOptions > in the following article. I think you can use -D to pass system vars: > > spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html#runtime-environment > > Hi, > > I am starting a spark streaming job in standalone mode with spark-submit. > > Is there a way to make the UNIX environment variables with which spark-submit > is started available to the processes started on the worker nodes? > > Jan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
