hadoop-daemon.sh and yarn-daemon.sh are trying to mkdir and chow log/pid dirs which can fail --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-8012 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8012 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: scripts Affects Versions: 0.23.0 Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik Priority: Minor Fix For: 0.23.1 Here's what I see when using Hadoop in Bigtop: {noformat} $ sudo /sbin/service hadoop-hdfs-namenode start Starting Hadoop namenode daemon (hadoop-namenode): chown: changing ownership of `/var/log/hadoop': Operation not permitted starting namenode, logging to /var/log/hadoop/hadoop-hdfs-namenode-centos5.out {noformat} This is a cosmetic issue, but it would be nice to fix it. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira