Thanks, Satish Mittal, I've added that information to the Error Logs section
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted#GettingStarted-ErrorLogs>
of the Getting Started wiki.
-- Lefty
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Satish Mittal <satish.mit...@inmobi.com>
wrote:
> 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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