running 0.9.0 (you can see it from the classpath shown below);
steve@mithril:/shared/cdh4$ echo $HIVE_CONF_DIR
/shared/hive/conf
steve@mithril:/shared/cdh4$ ls -l $HIVE_CONF_DIR
total 152
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 46053 2011-12-13 00:36 hive-default.xml.template
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 1615 2012-11-13 23:37 hive-env.bullshit.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 1671 2012-11-28 01:43 hive-env.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 1593 2011-12-13 00:36 hive-env.sh.template
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 1637 2011-12-13 00:36
hive-exec-log4j.properties.template
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2056 2012-11-28 01:38 hive-log4j.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 2056 2012-03-25 12:49
hive-log4j.properties.template
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 4415 2012-11-25 23:02 hive-site.xml
steve@mithril:/shared/cdh4$ echo $HIVE_HOME
/shared/hive
steve@mithril:/shared/cdh4$ echo $(which hive)
/shared/hive/bin/hive
also you can see the hive/conf is the first entry
After adding the debug statement:
classpath=*/shared/hive/conf:*
/shared/hive/lib/antlr-runtime-3.0.1.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-cli-1.2.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-codec-1.3.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-dbcp-1.4.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-logging-api-1.0.4.jar:/shared/hive/lib/commons-pool-1.5.4.jar:/shared/hive/lib/datanucleus-connectionpool-2.0.3.jar:/shared/hive/lib/datanucleus-core-2.0.3.jar:/shared/hive/lib/datanucleus-enhancer-2.0.3.jar:/shared/hive/lib/datanucleus-rdbms-2.0.3.jar:/shared/hive/lib/derby-10.4.2.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/guava-r09.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hbase-0.92.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hbase-0.92.0-tests.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-builtins-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-cli-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-common-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-contrib-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive_contrib.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-exec-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-hbase-handler-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-hwi-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-jdbc-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-metastore-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-pdk-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-serde-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-service-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/hive-shims-0.9.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.8.8.jar:/shared/hive/lib/jackson-jaxrs-1.8.8.jar:/shared/hive/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.8.8.jar:/shared/hive/lib/jackson-xc-1.8.8.jar:/shared/hive/lib/JavaEWAH-0.3.2.jar:/shared/hive/lib/jdo2-api-2.3-ec.jar:/shared/hive/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/shared/hive/lib/json-20090211.jar:/shared/hive/lib/libfb303-0.7.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/libfb303.jar:/shared/hive/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/shared/hive/lib/libthrift.jar:/shared/hive/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/shared/hive/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar:/shared/hive/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/shared/hive/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/shared/hive/lib/stringtemplate-3.1-b1.jar:/shared/hive/lib/zookeeper-3.4.3.jar:
But even so:
- the log dir is still wrong (writing to /tmp/${user}/hive.log instead
of $HIVE_HOME/logs)
- the following message in the log file
2012-11-30 00:12:31,775 WARN conf.HiveConf
(HiveConf.java:<clinit>(70)) - *hive-site.xml
not found on CLASSPATH*
* *
*
*
2012/11/30 Bing Li <sarah.lib...@gmail.com>
> which version of hive do you use?
>
> Could you try to add the following debug line in bin/hive before hive real
> executes, and see the result?
>
> *echo "CLASSPATH=$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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
