You can configure the following property in
$HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-log4j.properties:
hive.log.dir=<your location>
The default value of this property is ${java.io.tmpdir}/${user.name}.
Thanks,
Satish
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> we just moved to hadoop2.0 (HDP2.1 distro). it turns out that the new hive
> version generates a lot of logs into /tmp/ and is quickly creating the
> danger of running out of our /tmp/ space.
>
>
> I see these 2 different logs :
>
> [myuser@mybox ~]$ ls -lt /tmp/myuser/
> total 1988
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 191687 2014-07-17 11:17 hive.log
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 14472 2014-07-16 14:43
> myuser_20140716143232_d76043ed-1c4b-42a0-bf0a-2816377a6a2a.log
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 14260 2014-07-16 14:04
> myuser_20140716135353_de698da0-807f-4e3b-8b97-5af5064b55f2.log
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 14254 2014-07-16 13:42
> myuser_20140716133838_208329bd-77bb-4981-a2e9-e747647d0704.log
>
>
>
> from the doc at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted#GettingStarted-ErrorLogs
> I can see that "per Hive session basis in /tmp/<user.name>/, but can be
> configured in hive-site.xml
> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Configuration>
> with
> the hive.querylog.location property.",
> but I tried to pass it to -hiveconf
> hive.querylog.location=/tmp/mycustomlogdir/
> , doesn't seem to work; the hive.log location is not changed by this
> approach either.
>
> so how can I change the location of both the logs , by some per-script
> params ? (i.e. we can't afford to change the system hive-site.xml or
> /etc/hive/conf etc)
>
> Thanks a lot
> Yang
>
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