You need to stream and read the stderr and stdout for text messages alerting there is an error. In python this is what I use:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:42 PM, kentkong_work <kentkong_w...@163.com>wrote: > ** > hi, > I use a shell script to run hive query in background, like this > hive -e "select uname, age from usertable" >> result.csv & > > sometimes, the hive query failed, but I can't find. > only thing I can do is waiting for long time, 5 or 6 hours, if I still > can't see the result.csv, I know the query failed. > is there some way to let hive tell me the query failed? > > > Kent >