In hadoop-0.20.0 streaming job do not throw proper verbose error message if file is not present -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-1068 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1068 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: contrib/streaming Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Peeyush Bishnoi Fix For: 0.20.2, 0.21.0, 0.22.0, 0.20.1 With hadoop-0.20.0 proper error message is not thrown , when streaming job is submitted and if file is not present to be distributed with "-file" option. But with hadoop-0.18.* proper verbose message is thrown if file is not present and it is easy for the users to debug. For example: With hadoop-0.20.0: $ hadoop jar $HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-streaming.jar -Dmapred.job.queue.name=general -input /user/simon/test1.txt -output /user/simon/test.out -mapper "/bin/cat" -file dummy -reducer "/bin/cat" Streaming Job Failed! With hadoop-0.18.*: $ hadoop jar $HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-streaming.jar -input /user/simon/test1.txt -output /user/simon/test.out -mapper "/bin/cat" -file dummy -reducer "/bin/cat" 09/10/06 10:06:49 ERROR streaming.StreamJob: Unexpected value "Argument : /home/simon/dummy doesn't exist." found while processing -file --- -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.