[HIVE-1105] Add service script for starting metastore server

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Server Infrastructure
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

HIVE-1105. Add service script for starting metastore server. (John Sichi via zshao)
New command for starting a Hive metastore server:
hive --service metastore

• Assignee: John Sichi
• Reporter: John Sichi
• Created: 26/Jan/10 23:29
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:05
• Resolved: 28/Jan/10 23:36

Description

The instructions on this page recommend running Java directly in order to start the metastore:

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/AdminManual/MetastoreAdmin

Since we already have a generic service-starter script, it would be nice to be able to do this instead:

hive --service metastore

I've written a metastore.sh for this purpose.