I tried out hadoop/pig in my test environment using tar.gz's. Before I roll out to production, I thought I'd try the cdh3 pacakges, as that might be easier to maintain (since I'm not a sysadmin). Following cloudera's install guide worked like a charm, but I couldn't get pig to run until I did this:
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chmod 777 /tmp Maybe I missed the hows & whys of that setting in the install guide/forums, but just wanted to give a heads up to anyone else that gets "ERROR 6002: Unable to obtain a temporary path." and is puzzled at why... will
