[HADOOP-7895] HADOOP_LOG_DIR has to be set explicitly when running from the tarball

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: build
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eli Collins
• Created: 08/Dec/11 04:34
• Updated: 08/Feb/15 18:37
• Resolved: 08/Feb/15 18:37

Description

When running bin and sbin commands from the tarball if HADOOP_LOG_DIR is not explicitly set in hadoop-env.sh it doesn't use HADOOP_HOME/logs by default like it used to, instead picks a wrong dir:

localhost: mkdir: cannot create directory `/eli': Permission denied
localhost: chown: cannot access `/eli/eli': No such file or directory

We should have it default to HADOOP_HOME/logs or at least fail with a message if the dir doesn't exist, the env var isn't set.