which version of hive do you use? Could you try to add the following debug line in bin/hive before hive real executes, and see the result?
*echo "CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH"* if [ "$TORUN" = "" ]; then echo "Service $SERVICE not found" echo "Available Services: $SERVICE_LIST" exit 7 else $TORUN "$@" fi The version I used is 0.9.0 2012/11/30 Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> > Yes i do mean the log is in the wrong location, since it was set to a > persistent path in the $HIVE_CONF_DIR/lhive-log4j.properties. > > None of the files in that directory appear to be picked up properly: > neither the hive-site.xml nor log4j.properties. > > I have put echo statements into the 'hive" and the hive-config.sh shell > scripts and the echo statements prove that HIVE_CONF_DIR is set properly: > /shared/hive/conf > > But even so the following problems occur: > > - the message "hive-site.xml is not found in the classpath" > - none of the hive-site.xml values are taking properly > - the log4j.properties in that same directory is not taking effect. > > > > > 2012/11/29 Bing Li <sarah.lib...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, Stephen >> what did you mean the "wrong place under /tmp" in >> "I am seeing the following message in the logs (which are in the wrong >> place under /tmp..)" ? >> >> Did you mean that you set a different log dir but it didn't work? >> >> the log dir should be set in conf/hive-log4j.properties, >> conf/hive-exec-log4j.properties >> and you can try to reset HIVE_CONF_DIR in conf/hive-env.sh with ‘export" >> command. >> >> - Bing >> >> >> 2012/11/30 Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> >> >>> thought i mentioned in the posts those were already set and verified.. >>> but yes in any case that's first thing looked at. >>> >>> steve@mithril:~$ echo $HIVE_CONF_DIR >>> /shared/hive/conf >>> steve@mithril:~$ echo $HIVE_HOME >>> /shared/hive >>> >>> >>> 2012/11/29 kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com <kulkarni.swar...@gmail.com> >>> >>> Have you tried setting HIVE_HOME and HIVE_CONF_DIR? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2012/11/29 Shreepadma Venugopalan <shreepa...@cloudera.com> >>>>> >>>>>> Are you seeing this message when your bring up the standalone hive >>>>>> cli by running 'hive'? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Stephen Boesch >>>>>> <java...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> i am running under user steve. the latest log (where this shows up >>>>>>> ) is /tmp/steve/hive.log >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2012/11/29 Viral Bajaria <viral.baja...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You are seeing this error when you run the hive cli or in the >>>>>>>> tasktracker logs when you run a query ? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com >>>>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am seeing the following message in the logs (which are in the >>>>>>>>> wrong place under /tmp..) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> hive-site.xml not found on classpath >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> My hive-site.xml is under the standard location $HIVE_HOME/conf >>>>>>>>> so this should not happen. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Now some posts have talked that the HADOOP_CLASSPATH was mangled. >>>>>>>>> Mine is not.. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> So what is the underlying issue here? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> stephenb >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Swarnim >>>> >>> >>> >> >
