[BIGTOP-886] Non-fatal errors when starting Hive daemons in EL5

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Assignee: Sean Mackrory
• Reporter: Sean Mackrory
• Created: 26/Mar/13 16:08
• Updated: 21/Jun/13 23:49
• Resolved: 28/Mar/13 17:38

Description

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12575572/0001-BIGTOP-886.-Non-fatal-errors-when-starting-Hive-daem.patchWhen starting the Hive server and metastore in CentOS 5 some permissions errors related to nohup.out are printed. Initially, they do not appear to affect the service.

$ sudo service hive-server start
Starting (hive-server):                                    [  OK  ]
nohup: failed to open `nohup.out': Permission denied
nohup: failed to open `/var/lib/hive/nohup.out': Permission denied
$ sudo service hive-server status
Checking for service : server is running                   [  OK  ]
$ sudo service hive-metastore start
Starting (hive-metastore):                                 [  OK  ]
nohup: failed to open `nohup.out': Permission denied
nohup: failed to open `/var/lib/hive/nohup.out': Permission denied
$ sudo service hive-metastore status
Checking for service : metastore is running                [  OK  ]