If you have correctly set your HIVE_HOME variable in your .bash_rc file, What's the output of:
>cat $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-env.sh If it doesn't work, run >cat $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-env.sh.template On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Nicholas Murphy <nick.mur...@oracle.com> wrote: > Sorry for the (as per subject) basic, dumb getting started question but: > I'm trying to just set up Hive on a single node. Hadoop is set up and > running happily, but following the directions on the Getting Started guide > don't actually work (following the directions literally results in it > complaining about a lack of a hive-site.conf file; putting a dummy one in > results in, among other things, the HCatalog server not starting...looking > at logs, it looks like it's encountering configuration parsing problems, > which suggests I just don't have the configuration files set up > correctly). HADOOP_HOME is set, the correct directories are set up in > HDFS, etc. > > Hadoop version 2.5.1, Hive version 0.13.1, Oracle JDK (1.6, I believe), > Debian 7.7. > > I notice the default conf/ directory has a bunch of template files, but > only that. Can someone point me to a resource, or to an example of what > configuration I need, to actually run Hive correctly out of the box on a > single machine? > > Thanks, > Nick
