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netstat –alnp will show it netstat -alnp|egrep 'Local|10010|9083' (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:10010 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3197/java tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9083 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2943/java tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:21323 127.0.0.1:9083 ESTABLISHED 3197/java tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9083 127.0.0.1:21323 ESTABLISHED 2943/java tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:56797 127.0.0.1:9083 ESTABLISHED 3197/java tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9083 127.0.0.1:56797 ESTABLISHED 2943/java HTH Mich Talebzadeh Sybase ASE 15 Gold Medal Award 2008 A Winning Strategy: Running the most Critical Financial Data on ASE 15 <http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908.pdf> http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908.pdf Author of the books "A Practitioner’s Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15", ISBN 978-0-9563693-0-7. co-author "Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices", ISBN 978-0-9759693-0-4 Publications due shortly: Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Environments, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-3-8 Oracle and Sybase, Concepts and Contrasts, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-1-4, volume one out shortly <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. This message is for the designated recipient only, if you are not the intended recipient, you should destroy it immediately. Any information in this message shall not be understood as given or endorsed by Peridale Technology Ltd, its subsidiaries or their employees, unless expressly so stated. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this email is virus free, therefore neither Peridale Ltd, its subsidiaries nor their employees accept any responsibility. From: Daniel Haviv [mailto:daniel.ha...@veracity-group.com] Sent: 07 September 2015 13:13 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Permission denied error when starting HiveServer2 Hi, I'm getting this error when starting HiveServer2: 2015-09-07 08:09:50,356 WARN org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2: Error starting HiveServer2 on attempt 1, will retry in 60 seconds java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Permission denied at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:472) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.CLIService.applyAuthorizationConfigPolicy(CLIService.java:124) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.CLIService.init(CLIService.java:111) at org.apache.hive.service.CompositeService.init(CompositeService.java:59) at org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.init(HiveServer2.java:92) at org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.startHiveServer2(HiveServer2.java:309) at org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.access$400(HiveServer2.java:68) at org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2$StartOptionExecutor.execute(HiveServer2.java:523) at org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.main(HiveServer2.java:396) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Permission denied at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:465) ... 14 more Caused by: java.io.IOException: Permission denied at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method) at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:2024) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createTempFile(SessionState.java:740) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:463) ... 14 more the hive user has write permissions to the scratch dir, is there another path I should take care of ? Thank you. Daniel