Hi Lewis, The messages are showing up because log4j socket appender writes to stderr for those warn messages when it is unable to stream logs to log4j socket server. If Chukwa agent is started with socket adaptors prior to Hadoop and HBase, those messages will not show up.
Hope this helps regards, Eric On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > When I substitute the various Hadoop and HBase config files e.g. > log4j.properties, hadoop-metrics2.properties, etc. I am left with some > pretty unappealinh Log4j output as follows > > lmcgibbn@LMC-032857 /usr/local/hadoop-2.4.0/sbin(master) $ ./start-all.sh > This script is Deprecated. Instead use start-dfs.sh and start-yarn.sh > log4j:ERROR Could not connect to remote log4j server at [localhost]. We > will try again later. > log4j:ERROR Could not connect to remote log4j server at [localhost]. We > will try again later. > log4j:ERROR Could not connect to remote log4j server at [localhost]. We > will try again later. > log4j:WARN Failed to set property [port] to value "". > log4j:ERROR Could not connect to remote log4j server at [localhost]. We > will try again later. > log4j:WARN Failed to set property [port] to value "". > log4j:ERROR Could not connect to remote log4j server at [localhost]. We > will try again later. > 15/09/22 19:51:28 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop > library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable > ... > loads more of same logging. > > Does anyone know which specific setting setting is causing this? If so I > think a good patch would be to clean this up. > > I see several entires within log4j.properties as follows > > log4j.appender.RFA.RemoteHost=localhost > > However I am not sure if these are causing the problems. > Thanks for any guidance. > lewis > > -- > *Lewis* >