Uninformative error message for some sort of file permission problem from the hadoop command --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6463 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6463 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: util Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Benson Margulies It would be better if this error message would include the pathname for which permission was denied. ben...@cn0:/u1/benson/hadoop-test$ /u1/hadoop/bin/hadoop jar /u1/hadoop/hadoop-0.20.1-examples.jar wordcount /users/benson/gutenberg /users/benson/gutenberg-output Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Permission denied at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method) at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1716) at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1804) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:115) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.