Thanks for your response Jonathan. Yes, this works. I also added another
way of achieving this to the Stackoverflow post. Thanks for the help.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Jonathan Kelly <jonathaka...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Prithish,
>
> I saw you posted this on SO, so I responded there just now. See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42452622/custom-
> log4j-properties-on-aws-emr/42516161#42516161
>
> In short, an hdfs:// path can't be used to configure log4j because log4j
> knows nothing about hdfs. Instead, since you are using EMR, you should use
> the Configuration API when creating your cluster to configure the
> spark-log4j configuration classification. See http://docs.aws.amazon.
> com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-configure-apps.html for more info.
>
> ~ Jonathan
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:17 PM Prithish <prith...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Steve, I tried that, but didn't work. Any other ideas?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:42 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> try giving a resource of a file in the JAR, e.g add a file
>> "log4j-debugging.properties into the jar, and give a config option of
>> -Dlog4j.configuration=/log4j-debugging.properties   (maybe also try
>> without the "/")
>>
>>
>> On 26 Feb 2017, at 16:31, Prithish <prith...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hoping someone can answer this.
>>
>> I am unable to override and use a Custom log4j.properties on Amazon EMR.
>> I am running Spark on EMR (Yarn) and have tried all the below combinations
>> in the Spark-Submit to try and use the custom log4j.
>>
>> In Client mode
>> --driver-java-options "-Dlog4j.configuration=hdfs://
>> host:port/user/hadoop/log4j.properties"
>>
>> In Cluster mode
>> --conf "spark.driver.extraJavaOptions=-Dlog4j.configuration=hdfs://host:
>> port/user/hadoop/log4j.properties"
>>
>> I have also tried picking from local filesystem using file://// instead
>> of hdfs. None of this seem to work. However, I can get this working when
>> running on my local Yarn setup.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I have also posted on Stackoverflow (link below)
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42452622/custom-
>> log4j-properties-on-aws-emr
>>
>>
>>
>>

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