Do you have HADOOP_HOME and HADOOP_CONF_DIR exported pointing to your installation of hadoop?
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Karl Beecher <k...@endocode.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up Hadoop on a remote machine and have been trying to get my > local instance of Pig to contact it, largely following the instructions > here: > > > https://netezzaadmin.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/configuring-pig-to-work-with-a-remote-hadoop-cluster/ > > My Hadoop version is 2.7.0 and Pig is 0.14.0. > > When I run `pig` I get this error: > > org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: Server IPC version 9 cannot > communicate with client version 4 > > I'm guessing that my Pig instance in this case is using the default > embedded Hadoop client which is too old for my remote Hadoop. > > Is there some way to instruct Pig which Hadoop version to use? > > Many thanks, > Karl >