Hi Edward, Can you send us the contents of /tmp/<username>/hive.log. Also lets open a JIRA for this and carry out the discussion there - even if this is not a bug (which it may turn out to be), NullPointerException is not the most useful user visible message, so atleast that we should fix...
Thanks, Ashish -----Original Message----- From: Edward Capriolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hive questions about the meta db >> <name>hive.metastore.local</name> >> <value>true</value> Why would I set this property to true? My goal is to store the meta data in an external database. It i set this to true the metabase is created in the working directory.
