you need to give the locatiion of the history file...Please find following for same...
user@host-10-18-40-132<mailto:user@host-10-18-40-132>:~> mapred job -history /home/USER/staging-dir/history/done/2014/03/07/000000/job_1394167487634_0004-1394189877843-User-word+count-1394189895136-1-1-SUCCEEDED-a-1394189882729.jhist Hadoop job: job_1394167487634_0004 ===================================== User: User JobName: word count JobConf: hdfs://hacluster/home/USER/staging-dir/User/.staging/job_1394167487634_0004/job.xml Submitted At: 7-Mar-2014 16:27:57 Launched At: 7-Mar-2014 16:28:02 (4sec) Finished At: 7-Mar-2014 16:28:15 (12sec) Status: SUCCEEDED Counters: |Group Name |Counter name |Map Value |Reduce Value|Total Value| Thanks & Regards Brahma Reddy Battula ________________________________ From: Nitin Pawar [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: history viewer issue check the error Caused by: java.io.IOException: History directory /home/cloudera/1/_logs/historydoes not exist create that directory and change the ownership to the user running history server On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Avinash Kujur <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: hi, How to solve this problem. [cloudera@localhost ~]$ hadoop job -history ~/1 DEPRECATED: Use of this script to execute mapred command is deprecated. Instead use the mapred command for it. Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Not able to initialize History viewer at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.HistoryViewer.<init>(HistoryViewer.java:95) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.viewHistory(JobClient.java:1945) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.run(JobClient.java:1894) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:84) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.main(JobClient.java:2162) Caused by: java.io.IOException: History directory /home/cloudera/1/_logs/historydoes not exist at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.HistoryViewer.<init>(HistoryViewer.java:76) ... 5 more Regards, Avinash -- Nitin Pawar
