Run this first: >cp $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-env.sh.template $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-env.sh >gedit $HIVE_HOME/conf/hive-env.sh
Uncomment the lines towards the bottom that asks for HADDOP_HOME and HIVE_CONF_DIR and set the locations. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Gopal V <gop...@apache.org> wrote: > On 11/12/14, 1:27 PM, Nicholas Murphy wrote: > > 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? >> > > I do a build the first thing every morning with the latest of Tez/Hive & > leave perf runs in the night, if all day it didn't give me any errors. > > So, I run into this problem often enough that I carry an easy > build+install combo as part of my git repos. > > https://github.com/t3rmin4t0r/tez-autobuild > > FYI, this tracks bleeding edge of Hive+Tez (& ships a rough > hive-site.xml.default which corresponds to one of my setups). > > That Makefile + the hive-site.xml.default/.frag should help - you'll have > to edit the defaults for things like the mysql:// jdbc configs for > metastore. > > Cheers, > Gopal >