Can u see the logs why the service is dying ? Will have some clues there…sometimes the hive log directory can get full and that might kill it. I have seen that happening in our install here
From: Raj Hadoop <hadoop...@yahoo.com<mailto:hadoop...@yahoo.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>>, Raj Hadoop <hadoop...@yahoo.com<mailto:hadoop...@yahoo.com>> Date: Monday, August 5, 2013 9:29 AM To: Hive <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Hive Thrift Service - Not Running Continously Hi, The hive thrift service is not running continously. I had to execute the command (hive --service hiveserver &) very frequently . Can any one help me on this? Thanks, Raj CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.