Try adding the log4j.properties file to he distributed cache, e.g.: hadoop jar job.jar -config conf -files conf/log4j.properties my.package.Class arg1
-Joey On Feb 29, 2012, at 16:15, GUOJUN Zhu <guojun_...@freddiemac.com> wrote: > > What I found out is that the default conf/log4j.properties set root with INFO > and indeed anything beyond INFO (hadoop's or my own codes') show up. > However, I tried to put a new log4j.properties with lower threshold in the > new conf directory and specify it with "--configure" option and it did not > work (it did pick up other things such as mapreq-site.xml). Unfortunately, I > am not the administrator and do not have the priviledge to modify the default > log4j.properties. Do I have to ask the administrator to do it for me? > Thanks. > > Zhu, Guojun > Modeling Sr Graduate > 571-3824370 > guojun_...@freddiemac.com > Financial Engineering > Freddie Mac > > > GUOJUN Zhu <guojun_...@freddiemac.com> > 02/27/2012 11:34 AM > > Please respond to > mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org > > To > "mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org" <mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org> > cc > Subject > no log function for map/red in a cluster setup > > > > > > > Hi. > > We are testing hadoop. We are using hadoop (0.20.2-cdh3u3). I am using the > cotomized conf directory with -"-config mypath". I modified the > log4j.properties file in this path, adding > "log4j.logger.com.mycompany=DEBUG". It works fine with our > pseudo-one-node-cluster setup (1.00). But in the new cluster (with 32 data > nodes/name node/secondary namenode/jobtracker/backup jobtracker), I can only > see the log from hadoop (in the web interface, when I navigate all the way > into the task node log), but no logs from my mapper/reducer > (com.mycompany.***) show up. I can do System.out.println or > System.err.println and see them in the same log file, but no logs from log4j > show up. Is there any other configuration I missed? Thanks. > > Zhu, Guojun > Modeling Sr Graduate > 571-3824370 > guojun_...@freddiemac.com > Financial Engineering > Freddie Mac