[BIGTOP-734] Proposed fixes to Hive logging configuration

• Type: Bug
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Assignee: Sean Mackrory
• Reporter: Sean Mackrory
• Created: 09/Oct/12 21:16
• Updated: 06/Jan/14 05:39
• Resolved: 10/Oct/12 23:07

Description

A few changes are needed to make Hive's logging work better.

• The default configuration files have been renamed to have a .template suffix, but at least the log4j configuration files should lose the suffix so they can actually be used as the default configuration.
• The HADOOP_OPTS variable needs to be set for all daemons, not just hive-server (otherwise logs get put in /tmp).
• The HADOOP_OPTS variable should also specify hive.log.file so that the daemons have their own place and don't push junk into the hive.log file.
• HIVE-3505 will, in the next Hive release, allow us to override the default logging threshold and make security audit messages from the metastore show up in the logs by default.