permition problem

2014-05-01 Thread Livni, Dana
I'm working with spark 0.9.0 on cdh5. I'm running a spark application written in java in yarn-client mode. Cause of the OP installed on the cluster I need to run the application using the hdfs user, otherwise I have a permission problem and getting the following error:

Re: permition problem

2014-05-01 Thread Sean Owen
Yeah actually it's hdfs that has superuser privileges on HDFS, not root. It looks like you're trying to access a nonexistent user directory like /user/foo, and it fails because root can't create it, and you inherit privileges for root since that is what your app runs as. I don't think you want to