Looks like one of the environment variables in the pig shell script (`which pig`) is pointing to the hadoop cluster configuration. Check if environment variables PIG_CLASSPATH or PIG_CONF_DIR points to the hadoop configuration dir/file . -Thejas
On 11/4/10 8:11 AM, "Michael Sundell" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, While trying to run Pig in local mode using "pig -x local" I get the following error: 10/11/04 07:29:18 INFO pig.Main: Logging error messages to: /Users/some-name/Software/cloudera/hadoop-0.20.2+737/pig_1288880958619.log 2010-11-04 07:29:18,807 [main] WARN org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.HExecutionEngine - Passing Hadoop Site Configurations in classpath is not recommended for Local Mode 2010-11-04 07:29:18,971 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.Main - ERROR 0: mapred.system.dir: /Users/some-name/Software/cloudera/datadir/hadoop-some-name/mapred/system mentioned in the configuration does not exist I found the following patch that talks about this issue and about a patch that generates this error message: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1154 What I'm not clear about is how to address this issue. I'm using: pig-0.7.0+16 hadoop-0.20.2+737 Thank you
