its looking for the ${hadoop.log.dir} variable so you can either set that on the command line or you can change you log4j.properties file the conf like I did:

log4j.rootLogger=INFO,console

log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}: %m%n

Chris Stephens wrote:
How do I get rid of this error? How do I "initialize the log4j system properly"?

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

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