I am having trouble getting the hadoop command "job -hisotry" to work. What am I suppose to use for <jobOutputDir>? I can see the job history from the JobTracker web ui. I tried specifing the history directory on the JobTracker but it didn't work:
$ hadoop job -history logs/history/ Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Not able to initialize History viewer at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.HistoryViewer.<init>(HistoryViewer.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.viewHistory(JobClient.java:1596) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.run(JobClient.java:1560) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.main(JobClient.java:1727) Caused by: java.io.IOException: History directory logs/history/_logs/historydoes not exist at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.HistoryViewer.<init>(HistoryViewer.java:70) ... 5 more