Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-25 Thread jagaran das
, 2011 3:58:19 AM Subject: RE: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem? Yes, and its called using cron and writing a simple ksh script to clear out any files that are older than 15 days. There may be another way, but that's really the easiest. > Date: Thu, 23

RE: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-25 Thread Michael Segel
ack Craig > To: "common-user@hadoop.apache.org" > Sent: Wed, 22 June, 2011 2:00:23 PM > Subject: Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem? > > Thx to both respondents. > > Note i've not tried this redirection as I have only production

Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-22 Thread jagaran das
Hi, Can I limit the log file duration ? I want to keep files for last 15 days only. Regards, Jagaran From: Jack Craig To: "common-user@hadoop.apache.org" Sent: Wed, 22 June, 2011 2:00:23 PM Subject: Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to

Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-22 Thread Jack Craig
Thx to both respondents. Note i've not tried this redirection as I have only production grids available. Our grids are growing and with them, log volume. As until now that log location has been in the same fs as the grid data, so running out of space due log bloat is a growing problem. >From yo

Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-22 Thread Harsh J
Jack, I believe the location can definitely be set to any desired path. Could you tell us the issues you face when you change it? P.s. The env var is used to set the config property hadoop.log.dir internally. So as long as you use the regular scripts (bin/ or init.d/ ones) to start daemons, it wo

Re: Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-22 Thread Madhu Ramanna
Looks like you missed the '#' in line beginning Feel free to set HADOOP_LOG_DIR in that script or elsewhere On 6/22/11 1:02 PM, "Jack Craig" wrote: >Hi Folks, > >In the hadoop-env.sh, we find, ... > ># Where log files are stored. $HADOOP_HOME/logs by default. ># export HADOOP_LOG_DIR=${HADOOP_

Any reason Hadoop logs cant be directed to a separate filesystem?

2011-06-22 Thread Jack Craig
Hi Folks, In the hadoop-env.sh, we find, ... # Where log files are stored. $HADOOP_HOME/logs by default. # export HADOOP_LOG_DIR=${HADOOP_HOME}/logs is there any reason this location could not be a separate filesystem on the name node? Thx, jackc... Jack C