Hello, could anyone enlighten me as how the logging in Hive is working?
I see that a hive-exec-log4j.properties has been added but the JavaDoc says it is only used for local mode. I found other comments that mention that Hive uses a Classloader to find its configuration. I'm a bit confused as to which configuration is used when. Also: We've written our own UDFs and have included a log4j configuration which apparently overwrites all the Hive configurations (as would be expected I guess). Is there some kind of best practice how to handle this? Normally I'd just copy the default Hive configuration and insert our own into it. But there seems to be quite a bit of special logic for logging in Hive so I wanted to be sure. Thank you very much for your help. Cheers, Lars
