Re: Running from a client machine does not work under 1.03

2012-12-07 Thread Harsh J
Can you share your specific error/exception please? On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Steve Lewis wrote: > I have been running Hadoop jobs from my local box - on the net but outside > the cluster. > > Configuration conf = new Configuration(); > String jarfile = "somelocalfile.jar"; >

Re: Running from a client machine does not work under 1.03

2012-12-07 Thread Steve Lewis
The immediate problem is an access exception - users like Asterix\Steve - completely unknown to the file system cannot write files or directories. There is another error "Insufficient memory to start the java runtime" but we do not get far and a chunk of this effort has been to create a small sa

Re: Running from a client machine does not work under 1.03

2012-12-07 Thread Harsh J
It would help if I had the whole stacktrace. Note that submitting a job involves write to two filesystems: Client's local FS and JobTracker's distributed FS (HDFS). A Client will need access to the hadoop.tmp.dir pointed path at its own end to assemble a submittable jar to HDFS, onto JT. Your perm