That did the trick. Thanks Brock.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mark Roddy <markro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm getting a less than useful error message, which I've tracked down >> to coming from inside a try/catch where the exception is re-raised if >> a certain property is set[1]. >> >> However, I'm not seeing the stack trace after setting the property. >> I'm specifying it on the command line like such: >> sqoop import \ >> -Dsqoop.throwOnError=1 \ >> ... "rest of the command" >> >> Is that not the accepted way to specify a system property? > > I am not familiar with that specific option, but that appears to be a system > property. To set that System property, this should work: > env HADOOP_OPTS="-Dsqoop.throwOnError=1" sqoop > >> >> -Mark >> >> 1: >> } catch (IllegalArgumentException iea) { >> LOG.error("Imported Failed: " + iea.getMessage()); >> if (System.getProperty(Sqoop.SQOOP_RETHROW_PROPERTY) != null) { >> throw iea; >> } >> return 1; > >