we just moved to hadoop2.0 (HDP2.1 distro). it turns out that the new hive version generates a lot of logs into /tmp/ and is quickly creating the danger of running out of our /tmp/ space.
I see these 2 different logs : [myuser@mybox ~]$ ls -lt /tmp/myuser/ total 1988 -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 191687 2014-07-17 11:17 hive.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 14472 2014-07-16 14:43 myuser_20140716143232_d76043ed-1c4b-42a0-bf0a-2816377a6a2a.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 14260 2014-07-16 14:04 myuser_20140716135353_de698da0-807f-4e3b-8b97-5af5064b55f2.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 myuser myuser 14254 2014-07-16 13:42 myuser_20140716133838_208329bd-77bb-4981-a2e9-e747647d0704.log from the doc at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted#GettingStarted-ErrorLogs I can see that "per Hive session basis in /tmp/<user.name>/, but can be configured in hive-site.xml <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AdminManual+Configuration> with the hive.querylog.location property.", but I tried to pass it to -hiveconf hive.querylog.location=/tmp/mycustomlogdir/ , doesn't seem to work; the hive.log location is not changed by this approach either. so how can I change the location of both the logs , by some per-script params ? (i.e. we can't afford to change the system hive-site.xml or /etc/hive/conf etc) Thanks a lot Yang
